Rubber in Liberia

Rubber in Liberia, originally uploaded by rodrigo_bravo_d.

Little that´s worth anything makes it out of Liberia´s war wrecked ports these days, except rubber. Three years after the end of a civil war allegedly bankrolled by stolen timber and diamonds, the gooey latex accounts for virtually all the West African country´s exports. In the image a worker inspects collected latex at the Firestone rubber plantation in Monrovia, Liberia.