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6 de sept. de 2022 · In this exploration of corporate maneuvering and subterfuge, journalist Chapman shows how the importer United Fruit set the precedent for the institutionalized power and influence of today's multinational companies.
A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.
In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces.
He details how United Fruit, based in the US, operated with minimal regulations throughout Central America - resisting government controls, exploiting workers, damaging the environment, and contributing to a series of booms and busts that wreaked havoc for the poor.
banana's first port of call. It was a country the size of Massachusetts or Wales and grew mainly coffee, sugar and cotton. El Salvador did have an oligarchy, a very rich one, known as the 'Fourteen Families'. The 'Fourteen· shared United Fruit's
15 de dic. de 2022 · In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever...
4 de mar. de 2014 · A lively and insightful cultural history of the coveted yellow fruit, as well as a gripping narrative about the infamous rise and fall of the United Fruit Company.
