signed with united fruit a highly favorable for the company. large nationals like united fruit stuart stability for its for its investments democracy is can be very unstable i mean there's a reason why multinational investment is very low in india and the reason is it's democracy where there are multiple parties is always sort of checking do you always negotiating everything and that's that's a veritable. nightmare for multinationals and they prefer to work as a operate in china for example where provided the communist party approves of your activities you have a high degree of stability and things will basically you won't run into any sort of trouble so i think that i think that's what multinationals are after some sort of security and stability and that imported taters or the communist party can give you can give you that. with its promise of workers' rights and a minimum wage the guatemalan revolution no longer made the country vulnerable for united fruit. in one nine hundred fifty one democratic elections brought taco bell out of ben's teap

united fruit company had a flair for promoting bananas. mothers with families were the target the company published recipes and paid pediatricians to praise the bananas nutritional values. very soon americans could no longer do without them. imported in huge quantities they were low in price and widely accessible. and i. asked my advice and that is a delicate storms floods and heatwaves regularly destroyed crops bananas threatened to become scarce. and that was. that my friend. that i mine and his associates knew they needed to grow ever more bananas over a much larger area right across central america. former spanish colonies these countries had won their independence of the beginning of the nineteenth century but the united states regarded them as a natural extension of its own market. for the united fruit company this was one single territory completely given over to growing by nona's. just as the united fruit company itself kept on growing. it needed more and more land. in panama and costa rica local farmers were evicted. by slashing t

the plantations of the united fruit company became regard basins. in june one nine hundred fifty four the capital quite a modest city was bombed. over power of how kobol our parents resigned on the twenty seventh of june in a radio broadcast. they used communism as an excuse. but the truth is different. in reality it's about financial interests. those of the united fruit company and other north american monopolies. they've invested in latin america they fear the example of guatemala could spread to other nations. after becoming president with support from the united states custody or out of mass canfield the measures taken by the outer bands government. land reform was abandoned land was returned to united fruit. but neither stability nor security following. after the coup what a model was thrown into a civil war that continued until one thousand nine hundred ninety six. it left more than one hundred thousand dead a million displaced and tens of thousands missing. the maya indians were among the victims there was talk of genocide. fearing financial

did the united fruit company introduce capitalism to central america. it certainly had a specific vision of development and progress from the start. i've the railway laid the foundation for mine a cooper case huge well. for the young bank sions of central america it was synonymous with modernity. guatemala wanted it found railway but the country was in debt and when the price of coffee in its primary resource. elapsed it became insolvent plans to build a railway were put on ice. in one thousand and three. approached the one person who could help miner cooper. he agreed to build a railway in return as usual he demanded land for banana plantations have the right to operate the railway for his own needs he also acquired control over the country's main ports and the telegraph network. in other words guatemala gave away to the united fruit company its infrastructure its economy and its future in exchange for a railway. the company's empire grew to the detriment of the young nations in search of progress but with numerous sources and inject. all the money tha

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united fruit company, which allen dulles and john foster dulles used to run. they were chief counsel of united fruit. united fruit lands at cuba. president kennedy did not want any involvement, but one of the things that he told repeatedly is that he did not want u.s. fingerprints on this. he thought it was bad for the rest of the world if we were going in for regime change. that's not what america does. we don't do regime change in this country. we let countries beside their own futures and their own destinies. we don't do that for them. that would harvest across the americas also be very damaging around the world. they knew and they told him that as soon as the bay of pigs troop brigade lands is going to be an uprising against castro which my uncle was skeptical of what he believed the intelligence, but they were lying to enter they knew that castro at the time was extremely popular in cuba, that he had an army and intelligence apparatus that was very, very well-trained. and they were landing at the bay of pigs brigade in the place where there is no opportun

you mentioned going back to 1954 and the united fruit company. and that civil war, 200,000 died. it didn't end until the 199 0s. >> a definition of a war torn country. >> that's recent. definition of a war torn country. el salvador. from 1989 to 1992. significant deaths, peace accord is not signed until the 1990s. again, el salvador is reeling from recuperating from that decade-plus of civil war. >> then there is honduras which i guess of the three feels the most stable right now? >> honduras -- yes, but honduras also had an incredibly contested election late last year where the oas questioned the election results and it took quite some time until the president hernandez was actually designated to be the next president. but there are a number of different irregularities in honduras. those three countries at our center we have been focusing on doing studies and looking at how to we provide better conditions in those countries to convince people to stay. people don't want to leave if they don't have to leeb. >> what could be done? look, i feel as if that we have had -- every admini

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