This is the story of a fruit a simple fruit available all year round all around the world. This is the story of a fruit on which an empire was built one of the first multinationals the United Fruit Company. In the morning to get the booth. When i eat a banana sundae. Obvious is the story of a fruit that changed the destiny of Central America and gave its name to republics it became notorious it became the symbol of all thats wrong with american capitalism. This is a tale of economics and politics a story about globalization. This is the story of a fruit a simple friend the but none of. Her. It all began in eighteen seventy one when the government in costa rica asked to sell some Minor Cooper Keith from new york to build a railway. It was to link the caribbean coast to the high plateau changed through the jungle. But nothing went as planned. The jungle was merciless. That one accident scorpions malaria four thousand men died and just forty kilometers of Railway Track were completed. And