scale owners to small farms. but at the top of the list of large earners with more than two thirds of the country s agricultural land was the united fruit company. president of ben s issued a decree to confiscate hundreds of thousands of hectares of land kept in reserve by the company. he indemnities were based on the company s low tax declarations which never revealed its real profits. never before had united fruit been challenged in this way. as a young man samuels a murray had overturned a troublesome government this time with no mercenaries at hand he once again turned to his p.r. genius edward bernays and told him to deal with outer bands. sideways
fruit company and other north american monopolies. they ve invested in latin america they fear the example of guatemala could spread to other nations. who are already. becoming president with support from the united states custody or out of mass cancelled the measures taken by the outer bands government. land reform was abandoned land was returned to united fruit. but neither stability nor security for life. after the coup what a mile it was thrown into a civil war that continued until nineteen ninety six. it left more than one hundred thousand dead a million displaced and tens of thousands missing. the maya indians
america they fear the example of guatemala could spread to other nations. to becoming president with support from the united states custody you know out of mass cancelled the measures taken by the outer bands government. land reform was abandoned land was returned to united fruit. but neither stability nor security for there. after the coup what for 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 myall indians were among the victims there was talk of genocide.
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