1. How Bananas Brought Regime Change
(Newsletter)

... Society + Culture By MWC NEWS    Monday, 21 July 2008 Over the weekend, I read Bananas!: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman. The book details the history of ...

2. SOA Continues to Train Honduran Soldiers
(Opinions/Daily)

...at are supporting companies like Chiquita banana. I just wrote an article about Chiquita, formerly known as the United Fruit Company. And, you know, throughout history, Chiquita banana has had enormou...

3. Real Jews don't want to live in Israel
(Opinions/Interview)

...corporate interests.  You can see this over and over in the history of U.S. foreign policy.  When the United Fruit Company wanted the government of Guatemala overthrown, the CIA overthrew it...

4. How Bananas Brought Regime Change
(Opinions/Society)

Over the weekend, I read Bananas!: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World by Peter Chapman. The book details the history of the United Fruit Company and specifically its deep involvement in the

5. Life & Legacy of Che Guevara
(Opinions/Society)

...-orchestrated coup in Latin America. JUAN GONZALEZ: Against Arbenz. GREG GRANDIN: Against Jacobo Arbenz -- United Fruit Company -- defending the interests of the United Fruit company. AMY GOODMA...

6. Part II...Overthrow
(Opinions/Daily)

...la was a functioning democracy. In Guatemala, economic life was totally dominated by one American company: the United Fruit Company. It was a uniquely powerful company, had great ties in Washington. ...

7. Overthrow
(Opinions/Daily)

...t highly paid corporate lawyer. He represented all of the giant multinational corporations in America, not just United Fruit, but International Nickel and all sorts of resource conglomerates all over ...

8. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
(Opinions/Interview)

...70s. But talking about what happened in Guatemala, the overthrow of the democratically elected leader Arbenz by United Fruit and the C.I.A-backed coup there in 1954, and you reconstruct this conversat...