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2016-04-01 01:04:14 Post No. 916450
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2016-04-01 01:04:14
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Why does the United Fruit Company get such a bad reputation? Not even pro-capitalist people are willing to defend them, so the whole narrative focus on their role as an evil multinational corporation that exploited innocent Latin Americans.
Meanwhile in reality, they built a lot of infrastructure in the countries they operated, gave employment with better wages they could hope for to hundreds of thousands of impoverished peasants, who migrated from their lands to the unexplored regions of the Caribbean coast of Central America. The very fact that people constantly migrated to areas controlled by United Fruit shows that, whatever they did, it was better than what was going on before.
And look how things are now that they left. Cities like Puerto Barrios, Colón, Barranquilla, San Pedro Sula, these used to be great, prosperous (for their countries) cities, now they are all shitholes. San Pedro Sula, specially, is now the most violent city in the world.
How better would they be if an American company still ruled over them?
