Timor-Leste Makes Headway – Slowly

Bendita Ramos grimaced as she pointed over the rickety roadside fence in the Timorese hamlet of Kaitehu. On the other side was a field of bedraggled-looking maize plants, some stooped as if sheltering from the steady drizzle falling from the slate sky above.

“The corn we plant is damaged because of the long dry season and then the heavy rain,” the mother…