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Morocco’s Got Waves

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But while local businesses enjoy the benefits of tourism, Morocco’s surfers want their breaks back. The surf companies here are foreign-owned, and although they employ Moroccans as instructors, drivers, guides, cooks and cleaning crews, they are still outsiders. Graffiti scrawled on the crumbling wall of a former anchor factory at Taghazout’s most amazing break, Anchor Point, declares “Surf camps go home” in English.

As tourists surfing Morocco’s waves, we’re contributing to the country’s third-largest source of income.

The full story is at INTELLIGENT LIFE.

Free Chocolate’s Bitter Journey

“I’m traveling, and I’m interested in chocolate,” is how April Banks introduced herself to folks during a three-month trip to cocoa farms in Africa and Cuba. She had no press credentials, and no agenda. She traveled alone. Read about her story HERE at POP AND POLITICS.
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