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Angel Martinez
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"Most of [the United Fruit] company's American oversees, however, were from the deep South and brought their racial attitudes with them; company policy required 'all persons of color to give right of way to whites and remove their hats while talking to them'" (71)
— Jan 29, 2026 05:35AM
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Angel Martinez
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Guatemala up to 1950s basically big plantation where much of the land owned by foreign monopolists (like United Fruit Company, now Chiquita Banana) harvested for bananas/coffee (dependent on intl banana/coffee prices). Lots of land owned by monopolies left uncultivated. inefficiency of monopolists
Beyond scope of book: What was relationship btwn post-civil war South USA and expansion of latifundio system in LatAm?
— Jan 23, 2026 07:27AM
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Beyond scope of book: What was relationship btwn post-civil war South USA and expansion of latifundio system in LatAm?
