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Genre: Travel & Events
Date of upload: Dec 8, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.933 (1,351/79,167 LTDR)
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As a Guatemalan citicen, I have to say that you have explained this part of my culture in a very incredible way. It is very sad to think that Guatemalan workers still have to suffer through the consecuences of this horrible banana importation. You dont have to searche for long to finde an indegenous person struggeling to survive because of this. You have done an amazing job of explaining this topic. Make sure to enjoy your Gros Michel banana.
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As a Honduran (THE banana Republic), I thank that some people like you open English-speaking peoples' eyes about such a terrible issue many today ignore. There's a book from Honduran author RamĆ³n Amaya Amador called "PrisiĆ³n Verde". He describes this issue perfectly.
PD: The absolute worst part of the issue is that the US, up to this point, has done NOTHING to pay us. The Rosario Mining Company near Tegucigalpa also exploited our gold and silver reserves, representing centuries of development lost. The godamn giant hasn't repayed us for it. Typical US.
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As a colombian, I'm glad that you're using this platform to bring the bananas massacre into light (I feel like this sounds like a white savior thing but honestly I'm glad). It has been such a big issue here, because the goverment doesn't acknolowge it, to this day there are still people in power who dare to say that it never happened, completely stepping over the hundreds of lost lives. So yeah, you did a great research and I'm grateful for this video.
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My mom was born in a United Fruit company port ātownā in Panama. My family was one of the higher ups who were given a whole mansion and wild benefits like ice skating and bowling and movie theaters in the middle if nowhere panama. They actually blame the unions for ruining something they considered idyllic, not caring that the whole thing was basically built on the blood of locals. They brag about having servants, knowing they werenāt being paid with money. The town is a ghost town now but most structures are still there so you can see the mansions of the higher ups in the company and the shacks where their unpaid servants lived. Thanks so much for this video! Iād always wondered how this was even allowed to exist in the first place. Iām not close to my fam obviously š¤£ they never grew out of the chiquita fruit company mindset.
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My grandmother is Guatemalan, but was already living in the U.S. in the 1950s. However, she still had family in Guatemala when all this went down. One of her cousins and his daughter were guerilla fighters and were kidnapped. Neither of them were ever seen again. Our family still does not know what became of them.
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"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism ... I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street ... I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903." -- General Smedley Butler
Bananas are a footnote in American imperialism.
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Despite having spent countless hours on this platform, I do not always feel as though I wasted my time here. Although that does admittedly still occur at times, it occurs infinitely less often than with other similar "social media" apps.
It is informative content like this manifested by exceptionally talented creators who strive for quality in their works that truly make this platform great. Thank you for this beautiful video!
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@vinigomez598
2 years ago
As a Guatemalan, this is probably one of the saddest moments in our history, we were finally becoming a democracy, well ahead of other latin countries, 2 democratic presidents elected in a row, improving infraestructure, and a Banana Company destroyed it all in a couple of months, we only got a democraticly elected president in 1986
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