Day 069 - 19 Dec 94 - Page 33
1 A. No, not all the time.
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3 Q. What, from time to time, or in the last five years?
4 A. When we look at this, it was for a brief period of
5 time. We do have what we call a developmental licensee,
6 which is a special licensing agreement. He has his own
7 patty processing manufacturing facilities, and he has the
8 suppliers that supplies the raw materials. He does
9 basically everything.
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11 Q. In El Salvador?
12 A. That is correct.
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14 Q. How long has that been in existence?
15 A. Excuse me?
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17 Q. What I am saying is that, if Procasa was exporting to
18 El Salvador -----
19 A. Yes, it was for a short period of time.
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21 Q. How many years, can you remember?
22 A. It was less than one.
23
24 Q. It just happened to be at the time when you did this
25 survey?
26 A. Yes. I have seen this survey only once.
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28 Q. So where did the beef for El Salvador originate from at
29 other times?
30 A. It has changed throughout the times. El Salvador has
31 gone through, you know, a civil ---
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Civil war?
34 A. -- civil war for many years. During those times they
35 used to be self-sufficient. During the civil war, most of
36 the cattle was killed, so Nicaragua has been supplying
37 El Salvador in the last five years or so.
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39 MR. MORRIS: So before that, it was all local, was it?
40 A. That is correct.
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42 Q. As far as you remember?
43 A. That is correct. It used to be the economy in Central
44 America, so they were self-sufficient in mostly everything,
45 including cattle.
46
47 Q. If we move over to Puerto Rico, again, you filled out all
48 these ones, yourself?
49 A. Yes.
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51 Q. All the rest of them -- no, until we get to Finland. When
52 you filled these in, what did you do; did you phone up the
53 supplier or McDonald's in those countries?
54 A. No. What I did is, I knew who the suppliers were, and
55 in this country and in most of the Caribbean we do not have
56 meat plant, we do not have slaughterhouses. We import the
57 product from the US. Those are directly our suppliers in
58 the US. OSI Industries, Normac, Tyson Foods are US
59 industries, and they supply Puerto Rico as well as the
60 Caribbean.
