sentences:  Low prices of commodities, including sugar, depressed wages within the US, and perpetuated crises in Caribbean single-commodity producing nations.The situation is cited as a key factor inciting the revolution in Cuba that would ultimately result in the ouster of the Machado government.To alleviate misgivings from impoverished consumers in his native United States, Chadbourne stressed that the maneuver would serve to restore prices paid by refineries to sugar producers, but would not affect retail prices.