On March 23, 1903, U.S. troops arrived in Honduras during a disputed election to protect fruit company interests. This is a moment to discuss the labor history of fruit workers.
After United Fruit and the Dulles Brothers overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, the company came under a lot of criticism. After all, the fruit companies.
On June 18, 1954, the CIA-trained coup against democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz began, an event that crushed Guatemalan labor, happened with the complicity of the American labor movement,.
It's hard to imagine a more hackish book review than what Ira Stoll pulls off at Reason. Reviewing Rich Cohen's new book on the United Fruit Company (this is the.
