Inhoudsopgave
Waar komt de uitdrukking bananenrepubliek vandaan?
Bananenrepubliek is een leenvertaling van het Engelse banana republic. Het is in 1923 voor het eerst in het Nederlands aangetroffen, in een advertentie in de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant voor de film The Dictator van James Cruze. In die advertentie wordt de film als volgt aanbevolen: ‘Wat een film!
Waar komt Chiquita banaan vandaan?
Vandaag de dag groeien ze over de hele wereld in tropische gebieden. Vooral in Zuid- en Midden-Amerika, Afrika en Zuidoost-Azië zijn veel bananenbomen te vinden. Chiquita bananen komen uit de ‘bananengordel’ in Midden-Amerika, uit landen als Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Honduras en Guatemala.
Why did the United Fruit Company intervene in Guatemala?
In 1952, the government of Guatemala began expropriating unused United Fruit Company land to landless peasants. The company responded by intensively lobbying the U.S. government to intervene and mounting a misinformation campaign to portray the Guatemalan government as communist.
Who was the lawyer for the United Fruit Company?
Preston’s lawyer, Bradley Palmer, had devised a scheme for the solution of the participants’ cash flow problems and was in the process of implementing it. The merger formed the United Fruit Company, based in Boston, with Preston as president and Keith as vice-president.
When did United Fruit become the largest employer in Central America?
By 1930, it had absorbed more than 20 rival firms, acquiring a capital of $215 million and becoming the largest employer in Central America. In 1930, Sam Zemurray (nicknamed “Sam the Banana Man”) sold his Cuyamel Fruit Company to United Fruit and retired from the fruit business.
What is the connection between United Fruit and the CIA?
United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was an avowed opponent of Communism, and his law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, had represented United Fruit. His brother Allen Dulles was the director of the CIA and a board member of United Fruit. United Fruit Company is the only company known to have a CIA cryptonym.