#unitedfruit — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh, that makes it okay then
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2075185/oh-that-makes-it-okay-then
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Free open-access publication article on 20th century archaeology of Maya sites Quiriguá and Zaculeu
How the United Fruit Company Racialized Archaeological Labor in Guatemala, 1910–1953 by Sam Holley-Kline
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Gen. Carlos Cortés Vargas, who gave the order to shoot, admitted only to there being 47 deaths in the banana massacre of 1928. A young liberal congressman, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, put the number at 2,000 — many of whose bodies he claimed were dumped into the sea.
#capitalism #Colombia #BananaRepublic #massacre #HumanRights #legal #Chiquita #UnitedFruit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/01/chiquita-banana-verdict-colombia-capitalism/ -
#USA corporation #Chiquita Brands , former #UnitedFruit , funded terrorist groups in #Colombia in #SouthAmerica . Another example how capitalism funds crimes against humanity and the working class masses of people. This is also a call to decolonize our food production. 🍇 🍎 🍌 🥭
"Florida jury finds Chiquita Brands liable for Colombia deaths, must pay $38.3M to family members"
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From Arbenz to Zelaya | MIA https://miamericas.org/?p=197 #chiquita #unitedfruit #bitterfruit
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I like #Wikipedia a lot. However, depending on the language you read a specific page in Wikipedia, you will see that the human/cultural/political bias and/or influence is so high.
Today's example: the so called #banana #massacre of workers of the US company #UnitedFruit in Colombia (1928). #USA forced Colombia to 'stop' a workers strike at any cost and #Colombia sent the army to kill civilians.
Now, compare the versions in English and Spanish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masacre_de_las_bananeras -
CW: Long thread/28
The most famous of these raiders was #EliBlack, who took over #UnitedFruit with this gambit - a company that had a long association with the CIA, who had obligingly toppled democratically elected governments and installed dictators friendly to United's interests (this is where the term "banana republic" comes from).
Eli Black's son is #LeonBlack, a notorious PE predator.
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