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Character in a novel becomes fair trade policy

This content was published on Sep 3, 2002 “Max Havelaar” was the most popular novel in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. Written by a former colonial civil servant, Eduard Douwes Dekker, the novel was a bitter complaint against colonial policy, which revealed the Dutch exploitation of the Javanese. Almost two centuries later, coffee farmers in Colombia receive a fair price for their…