Banana Massacre December 6, 1928
The Banana massacre (Spanish: Matanza de las bananeras[1] or Masacre de las bananeras) was a massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred on December 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. An unknown number of workers died[2] after the government decided to send the Colombian army to end a month-long strike organized by the workers' union in order to secure better working conditions. The government of the United States of America had threatened to invade with the US Marine Corps if the Colombian government did not act to protect United Fruits interests. Gabriel García Márquez depicted a fictional version of the massacre in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, as did Álvaro Cepeda Samudio in his La Casa Grande.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre
avebury
(10,952 posts)workers in other countries should have greater protection then the workers in our own country.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)not the workers.
Similar happened in Guatemala 1954 at the behest of the Dulles bros. both of whom had close associations with United Fruit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company includes reference to the Banana Massacre.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)The workers were the last thing on the minds of United Fruit or the United States.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)In the case of Guatemala - take that situation away and Che Guevera wouldn't have skipped across the border to Mexico and the Castros would never have found him there. Funny old world.
I only know that because I've got this book :
In 1952, the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened a file on a young doctor from Argentina who was traversing the hemisphere and displaying suspiciously leftist sentiments at every stop. The passport of this man, whose proper name was Ernesto Guevara de la Cerna, was copied and stored by the FBI's office in Miami, where Guevara had briefly visited. An FBI bio sheet added to the file listed another name for this yet to be famous individual: he was "aka Che."
http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1197/che.htm
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)to the discussion. Everything is connected and there is rarely just one answer.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Walmart executives must read about this and sigh for the good ol' days.