This week we are wrapping up the United Fruit story! Bananas are essentially running the CIA, creating wars, and dying of disease. There are pesticides and people being sterilized, war crimes and court settlements.

Sources for this week:

Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison

Bananas  How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World - Peter Chapman

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/chiquita-banana-lawsuit-colombia.html?searchResultPosition=1 

https://newrepublic.com/article/182589/chiquita-colombia-deaths-verdict

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/deadly-side-americas-banana-obsession

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62120058

https://partnersinjustice.org/our-work/current-projects/crimes-against-humanity-and-chiquita-bananas/

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