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	United Fruit Company - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The United Fruit Company (1899-1970) was a corporation prominent in the import-export trade of tropical fruit (notably bananas and pineapples) coming from Third World plantations and sent to the United States and Europe.
		The capital of the United Fruit Company empire was in Guatemala, in the town of Bananera, where it made its headquarters.
		In 1954 United Fruit gave the CIA permission to use their railroad system to smuggle arms, its Atlantic port to land equipment, its telegraph, telephone and radio network to relay messages and its properties to giver cover to the rebels.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/United_Fruit_Company (512 words)

	United Fruit Company
		The Company several times overthrew governments which they considered insufficiently compliant to Company will, for example in 1910 a ship of armed hired thugs was sent from New Orleans to Honduras to install a new president by force when the incumbant failed to grant the Fruit Company tax breaks.
		For example in Guatemala the Company built schools for the people who lived and worked on Company land, while at the same time for many years prevented the Guatemalan government from building highways, because this would lessen the profitable transportation monopoly of the railroads, which were owned by United Fruit.
		The UFC and the bankers that supported it convinced the CIA and president Dwight Eisenhower that this was the first sign of a communist takeover in Central America, and Guzman's government was overthrown.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/un/United_Fruit.html (433 words)

	United Fruit Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Fruit Company (1899–1970) was a major American corporation that traded tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
		Company holdings in Cuba, which included sugar mills in the Oriente region of the island, were expropriated by the 1959 revolutionary government led by Fidel Castro.
		By April 1960 Castro was accusing the company of aiding Cuban exiles and supporters of former leader Fulgencio Batista in initiating a seaborn invasion of Cuba directed from the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Fruit_Company (2087 words)

	United Fruit Company
		In 1899, the Boston Fruit Company and the United Fruit Company (UFCO) merged, thus forming the largest banana company in the world with plantations in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama and Santo Domingo.
		United Fruit charged a tariff on every item of freight that moved in and out of the country via Puerto Barrios.
		The United Fruit Company paid its full-time employees better than any other, built housing and schools for the children of its employees, built hospitals and research laboratories.
	www.mayaparadise.com /ufc1e.htm (1751 words)

	United Fruit Company - Chronology
		United Fruit's Home Economics Department publishes the school teacher manual entitled "A Study of the Banana: The Everyday Use and Food Value." The manual gave a detailed description of the food value of bananas and gave suggestions of preparation.
		Samuel Zemurray, President of the United Fruit, establishes the Escuela Agricola Panamericana in Honduras.
		United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sends a protest note to Arbenz declaring that the idemnification value calculated by the Guatemalan government was not fair.
	www.unitedfruit.org /chron.htm (7780 words)

	United Fruit Company-Jacobo Arbenz
		The expropriations of United Fruit lands began in March 1953 when 209,842 acres of uncultivated land were taken by the government which offered a compensation of $627,572 in bonds.
		United Fruit contered this argument by claiming that it had tried to raise the tax value before, but was prevented to do so.
		United Fruit main shareholder, Samuel Zemurray endorsed an anti-Arbenz campaign in the American media and the U.S. Congress in order to show President Arbenz as a Communist threat in the Western Hemisphere.
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	United Fruit Company
		Norwegian, 1921 purchased by Cuyamel Fruit, 1929 acquired by UFC Honduran flag, 1942 torpedoed and sunk.
		Norwegian, 1921 purchased by Cuyamel Fruit Co, 1929 acquired by UFC in merger, Honduras flag, 1948 sold to India renamed Jayalanka.
		Cuyamel Fruit Co, 1929 acquired by UFC in merger, Honduras flag, 1931 transferred to Elders & Fyffes Co, 1937 sold to Denmark, renamed Knud Rasmussen and chartered to UFC, 1940 reverted to UFC renamed Toltec, Honduras flag, 1961 scrapped.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/ufruit.htm (4041 words)

	Banana Plantations in Central America
		These independent growers formed contracts with the fruit companies agreeing to sell their fruit only to the transnationals, who would be in charge of transport, marketing, and distribution abroad.
		The United States is the largest banana consumer, importing an average of 3.7 million tons of the fruit each year (Baxter, 1998).
		United Fruit’s campaign was a success, and in 1954, the CIA led a coup in Guatemala which overthrew the Arbenz government and replaced him with a president who returned all of United Fruit’s landholdings.
	members.tripod.com /foro_emaus/BanPlantsCA.htm (4663 words)

	United Fruit Company
		It begins to bear fruit at the age of ten or eleven months, and with the maturing of one bunch of fruit the parent plant is at once cut down so the the strength of the soil may go into the suckers that succeed it.
		All fruit is delivered along the railway lines, and the larger growers have tramways, the cars drawn by oxen or mules, to carry their fruit to the stipulated point.
		The fruit can be prepared in a multitude of fashions, particularly the coarser varieties of plantains, and the Fruit Company has compiled a banana cook book but has taken little pains to circulate it, the demand for the fruit being at times still in excess of the supply.
	www.czbrats.com /MiNombre/unfruit.htm (2705 words)

	Port of Los Angeles Virtual History Tour \| Berth 147 - United Fruit Company (Banana Terminal)
		Between 1927 and 1936, the United Fruit Company operated a banana receiving terminal at Berth 188 at the Port of Los Angeles.
		The United Fruit Company terminal was designed to speed the process of transferring bananas from ships to markets, and by doing so, decrease the time spent in transit and reduce the potential for fruit damage from handling and storage.
		The United Fruit Company built its new terminal in San Pedro with the expectation that banana imports through western ports such as the Port of Los Angeles, would increase substantially.
	www.laporthistory.org /level3/berth_147.html (383 words)

	\| "Green Havoc": Panama Disease, Environmental Change, and Labor Process in the Central American Banana Industry \| The ...
		Moreover, the company's next generation of field managers would be well trained to cooperate in these technical initiatives: in the mid-1920s, United began for the first time to recruit plantation staff for all divisions from agricultural and engineering schools.
		The story of United Fruit's confrontation with Panama disease is unique only in that the disease's slow, sixty-year progress gave the company time to elaborate a variety of responses to it.
		United's struggle with the epidemic is also important for understanding the political and social history of Central America, where resistance and accommodation to the multinational corporation have helped shape class relations, the development of nationalism, and the political order of the isthmus throughout most of the twentieth century.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/106.1/ah000049.html (13762 words)

	The C.I.A. In Guatemala
		United Fruit became the largest employer in Guatemala as well as the largest landowner and exporter, and the Company became used to exemption from internal taxation, duty free exportation and guaranteed cheap labor under the jurisdiction of the Guatemalan administration.
		In 1901 the Company obtained the contract to carry mail from Guatemala on its ships, and in 1904 the Guatemalan dictator offered to let the Company continue one of the only Guatemalan railroads and extend it across the whole country, connecting Guatemala City in the west of Guatemala to Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic coast.
		The leaders of the United Fruit Company went to a man called Edward Bernays, a master of public relations, and hired him to change the negative opinion that the United States was slowly forming toward the enormous United Fruit Company due to people like Huey Long.
	www.warui.com /stefan/warui/h32/TheCIAinGuatemala.html (1936 words)

	Guatemala and the CIA
		The Boston Fruit Company had been shipping bananas from Jamaica, Cuba, and Santa Domingo since 1885 but finding that the crops were getting thin in 1898, they decided that they needed their own land to harvest.
		The United Fruit Company is the principle enemy of the progress of Guatemala, of its democracy and of every effort directed as its economic liberation." President Arbenz expresses his bitterness towards UFCO.
		This aggressive goal for development threatened the fruit company; and the fact that Arbenz was receiving financial support from the Communist party for his goal, gave the CIA reason to investigate and overthrow him without international or American backlash.
	members.tripod.com /group_13dc/megan/Guate.html (1838 words)

	Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After the turn of the century, The United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company expanded their control over the rich alluvial plains of Honduras' Atlantic coast.
		The banana operations were run like private cheifdoms, in which the companies kept order and crushed labor organizing with their own security forces or by calling in U.S. troops.
		In Honduras, as elsewhere in Central America, the banana companies had begun to return some of their lands to the government, but continued to market the bananas grown by small farmers or peasant cooperatives on the returned lands.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/afburns/afrotrop/Honduras.htm (664 words)

	United Fruit and the CIA (March 17, 1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		United Fruit monopolized Guatemala's banana exports and owned much of the country's communications system; its control over the economy was threatened by Arbenz's programs.
		But what must have especially raised United Fruit's ire was the land reform program: United Fruit wanted $16 million for the portion of its land the government was expropriating--land which United Fruit itself valued at only $525,000--exactly what the Guatemalan government was offering for it.
		One example: United Fruit company representatives circulated pictures of mutilated bodies claiming they were victims of atrocities committed by the Arbenz regime, all the while knowing this was untrue.
	www.eatthestate.org /03-26/UnitedFruitCIA.htm (1099 words)

	Preface to For the Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Having been born at a United Fruit Company hospital on Guatemala's north coast and lived for several years in the division headquarters for its south coast plantations, I have always found it curious that so many scholars have consistently repeated the same accusations about UFCO's Guatemala operations.
		Ultimately, the taxes and salaries that the United Fruit Company paid, and the millions of dollars of foreign exchange earnings that it annually generated, impacted in an important way on Guatemala's economy.
		While United Fruit's complex and efficient division of labor was undoubtedly instrumental in transforming huge wilderness areas into productive farm lands, it was the employees -- Guatemalan, North American and European -- whose hard work made possible the conquest of Guatemala's disease-ridden coastal areas.
	www.macaw.com /products/preface.htm (909 words)

	Nicaragua: US United Fruit, oil palm and forest destruction
		The company was allowed to buy land at cheap prices, it was granted subsidies, and with some variations, it obtained in many Central American countries the control of transport and communications, which also allowed it to collect money for every product transported from one place to another.
		In 1923, United Fruit created a research department and an experimental station (both of them in Honduras), with the objective of introducing and assessing new tropical crops in Central America.
		In 1962, UFCO began a period of strong incentive to this crop, and the decade of the sixties was characterized by the adoption of a number of measures to expand plantations.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/47/Nicaragua.html (798 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita) has long exerted enormous influence throughout Central America and within the United States Government.
		United Fruit controlled roughly 40% of the most fertile land, owned a railroad, held a monopoly on electricity production and ran the port facilities in Puerto Barrios, Atlantic Coast.
		Though United Fruit owned huge tracts of land, it paid little in the way of property tax in Guatemala in part because they claimed their land was only worth a fraction of it's real value on tax receipts.
	www.west.net /~tmiller/gh/era4/united_fruit.html (202 words)

	UNITED FRUIT/CHIQUITA AND HUMAN RIGHTS
		Local journalists accused it of corrupting government officials, exploiting workers and of generally exercising an influence far beyond its role as a foreign company....Personal financial interest in high places coupled with a general fear that Guatemala was on the brink of fullly embracing communism led to the CIA-engineered coup of 1954.
		The Armuelles Fruit Company, a Chiquita subsidiary, was the subject of a complaint to the Labour Ministry about the unfair dismissals of 28 workers last December.
		The Armuelles Fruit Company is well- known to the labour inspectors, having been fined several times for refusing to cooperate with them.
	www.geocities.com /~virtualtruth/chiquita.htm (1113 words)

	The History of Oil Palm Breeding in the United Fruit Company
		The early history of the oil palm in Central America is largely the history of the crop in the United Fruit Company.
		Eventhough the major interest of the United Fruit Company since the last years of the 19th century has been the production and exportation of bananas, an interest in crop diversification is long standing.
		In March 1899, the United Fruit Company was formed by a fusion of Preston's and Keith's interests.
	www.asd-cr.com /ASD-Pub/Bol11/B11c1Ing.htm (5006 words)

	Scoop: Follow The Yellow Brick Road: Part Two
		During this period, Stans also was vice chairman and a director of the United California Bank, a trustee of Pomona College, chairman of a committee in Los Angeles County government, and on a commission to revise the California state constitution.
		United Fruit was a financial model set up in the U.S. to replace the British chartered company model, which would not have been accepted in America because of the prohibition of government being involved in venture capital enterprises for profit.
		United Fruit Co. stood behind the regime of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0204/S00030.htm (15623 words)

	united fruit company and the cia - Assata Speaks - Hands Off Assata - Let's Get Free - Revolutionary - Pan-Africanism - ...
		the major road block for marcus garvey among other things was the united fruit company and dole,the united fruit company was the left arm of the cia,often times the cia used the afl- cio to undermine workers in asia,carribean and latin american
		It is by far the largest banana exporting company in the country, growing 10% and exporting up to 50% of all Ecuador's bananas.
		And British apples, of course, are also competing for the consumer's attention along with exotic fruits such as guava or mango, which are also readily available because of the globalisation of the food industry.
	www.assatashakur.org /forum/showthread.php?t=4635 (5048 words)

	Books from Editorial Antigua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		U.S. and Latin American scholars have repeatedly accused the Company of nefarious practices that were detrimental to the development of the countries in which it operated.
		Nowhere has the United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International) been more criticized than in Guatemala, where, among many other charges, it has been frequently alleged that President Jacobo Arbenz's expropriation of thousands of acres of UFCO's landholdings triggered the U.S. government's 1954 coup against the most progressive government in Guatemala's chaotic and violent history.
		This book, which puts on the record most of the charges that have been made about the United Fruit Company's sixty-six years in Guatemala (1906-1972), provides a careful analysis of these allegations.
	www.macaw.com /products/books.htm (317 words)

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