Wishing you a beautiful holiday season and marvelous moments with your loved ones. I wasn´t able to publish last Friday. The first and most crucial reason: I was saturated with reading about sugar. There are thousands of old and new books about this special plantation, and I perceived that I needed more time for it. That is why we have rescheduled our outline. We have extended the saga to Season V., and we will dedicate 4 chapters to sugar economic development business model between 1500 and 1900. We have framed our new outline below. Please take a look at it. We are convinced that you will be more than pleased with our next final Season V. These three cultivars: Sugar, Bananas, and cattle-foodstuff for subsistence are indeed crucial to explore in detail, and I can´t leave them lightly. I also need to take a mandatory break for personal replenishment and well-being. Holidays are a beautiful season to relax, and I truly need to stop reading 300 pages of academic books and research papers per week for a few days.

Let´s download the material of reference prepared for you. We always encourage our Master-Class readers to get acquainted with this material, otherwise you will be completely lost once we upload our strategic reflections of the class on Monday. It is better if you print it and write your questions next to each slide. Feel free to share this content with your friends, colleagues, professors, and family. It is lovely to see people discussing and learning together.

We request that you return next Monday, December 22nd, to read our additional strategic reflections on this chapter.
We encourage our readers to familiarize themselves with our Friday master class by reviewing the slides over the weekend. We expect you to create ideas that may or may not be strategic reflections. Every Monday, we upload our strategic inferences below. These will appear in the next paragraph. Only then will you be able to compare your own reflections with our introspection.

Additional strategic reflections on this episode. These will appear in the section below on Monday, December 22nd, 2025.

Closing words. Announcement.
This chapter is the result of a reflection. We can´t close this saga without extending it into Season V. We are going to explore the roots of the low-cost strategy, using sugar plantations and bananas. Sugar was never a relevant crop in Central America until the 20th century. Consequently, we will explore the Caribbean (West Indies) to fulfill the requirements of the study period (1700-1900). This chapter is an introduction to the plantation agriculture in America, and how sugar plantations and their processing voyaged from New Guinea to the Caribbean. We have detected how and when slavery was introduced in the sugar production business model of the Mediterranean locations ( between 900 and 1300 CE), and why this model was so determinant in the replication of it in the New World by the Spaniards and Portuguese.

Our next chapter (on January 9^th, 2026), the first one of season V, will be about: a General Discussion about the primitive sugar value chain (before the Industrial Revolution), the Rise of sugar crops in the West Indies between 1500 and 1850, and the Sugar conflicts between the Empires.

We wish you a joyous and wonderful Christmas celebration. Thank you so much for reading our saga in 2025. There is still more to come, and we truly expect to finalize it in March 2026. Gracias por todo.

Musical Section.
During season IV of “Central America: A Quest for the Progression of Economic Value,” we introduced several young guitarrists to our audience. We appreciate their presence in this master-class saga. Thanks so much for accompaning us during the fall winter season. However, for next season V, we will return back to classical camera orchestra compositions.

We wish to close the work of the year with a lovely collection of instrumental christmas carols grouped by HalidonMusic. Enjoy!

Thank you for reading http://www.eleonoraescalantestrategy.com. It is a privilege to learn. Blessings.

Sources of reference and Bibliography utilized today. All are listed in the slide document. Additional material will be added when we upload the strategic reflections.

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