This essay is about the United Fruit Company and its part in the US sponsored military coup in Gautemala.
Date Submitted: 12/25/2004 19:36:10
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 1 pages (257 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Military
Length: 1 pages (257 words)
Do you enjoy those Chiquita bananas everyone loves? Well after learning a little bit more about the company who brings them to you they might not taste so good. The time is the early 1950s. The place Guatemala. The United States is running a secret operation known as PBSUCCESS in order to eliminate the current government. But wait, this is the first democratic government in Guatemala so why would the United States be trying to …
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…of land and other necessities to the government. Naturally the good hearted president wanted to help his people but this would hurt the United Fruit Company's business and the big banks who backed the corporation didn't like that one bit. Eventually money became more important than human rights and the CIA plotted a military coup to get rid of Arbenz. It was successful and the United Fruit Company got a leader who supported their ways.
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