What the fuck?
<https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/115835200561028832> @Taweret (five of five):
＂… so when people say the us can't hold venezuela or won't know what to do there: they've been doing this for a hundred years. this is the original playbook. it never stopped. it just had a pr makeover for a while＂
The Dark Side of Bananas: Imperialism, Non-State Actors, and Power (Harvard International Review, 2023) <https://hir.harvard.edu/the-dark-side-of-bananas-imperialism-non-state-actors-and-power/>
Banana Republics - Visualizing the Americas (University of Toronto) <https://visualizingtheamericas.utm.utoronto.ca/banana-republics-1>
Bananas & Brutality: The Twisted History of United Fruit | TheCollector (Kassandre Dwyer, 2024) <https://www.thecollector.com/twisted-history-united-fruit-bananas/>
In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900–1995 (Steve Striffler, 2002) <https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11cw07s> – recommended at <https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/19ng4l/comment/c8pmzb1/?context=3>
Crown Colony as Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company in British Honduras, 1900-1920 (Mark Moberg,
Journal of Latin American Studies, 1996) on JSTOR <https://www.jstor.org/stable/157625>
TIL the dark history of bananas. In an effort to preserve "United Fruit Company's" monopoly on bananas, the U.S. Government removed the democratically elected president of Guatemala in secret by faking a radio station that reported a fake military invasion of Guatemala. : r/todayilearned (2015) <https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3imvq9/til_the_dark_history_of_bananas_in_an_effort_to/>
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
United Fruit Company - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company>
The United Fruit Company: The Scourge of Central and South America – 'Where There Was Fire' (John Manuel Arias, 2023) reviewed by Lisa Butts at <https://www.bookbrowse.com/mag/btb/index.cfm/book_number/4701/where-there-was-fire>