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United Fruit Company
Mercenaries & Empires
● No longer in business
The American banana empire that dominated the land, railroads, and politics of Central America from 1899 to 1970, gave rise to the term 'banana republic,' and whose lobbying helped prompt the CIA-backed 1954 coup in Guatemala before it became Chiquita.
Founded 1899
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