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See also the Banana Massacre instigated by the United Fruit Company against plantation workers making outrageous demands like limiting the work week to 6 days. 100 years later, that company operates under the name Chiquita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre

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Also the Guatemalan coup that was heavily lobbied for by the United Fruit Company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%2527%...

"The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the softening of exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government."

It's amazing how decades later, they heirs of United Fruit Company are still using violence as a tool for increasing profit. This is what happens when individuals are not criminally prosecuted for bad conduct. I'm sure it will happen again.

Who prosecutes, when the ones who have jurisdiction are the ones overthrowing gov’ts for ‘the bad guys’?

Documented in the famous Neruda poem

And alluded to by Marquez.

When I was in Nepal, they were getting USD to "fight the communists" and when I read their manifesto, it was all about removing corruption from the system. Nothing "communist" about it.

Same as this shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre#Strike

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