successfully outbids *CIA-linked* offshore oil company Zapata for control of #UnitedFruit;
Zapata was founded by future president -- and 1976 CIA director -- George H.W. Bush,
and during the CIA's failed attempt to invade #Cuba in 1961, its oil rigs were used as listening posts.⛽️
#DominicanRepublic #PepeFanjul #StoryCowles
#GeorgeHWBush #UnitedFruit #EliBlack
#ZapataOffShore #Haiti #GeorgeDeMohrenschildt
#MarcoRubio #AlexAcosta #JayLefkowitz
#Kirkland&Ellis #BillBarr #DonaldBarr #OSS
#TerraMar #GhislaineMaxwell #PaoloZampolli #Dominica
#WilburRoss #DeutscheBank #UBS
From United Fruit to Venezuela: How America Keeps Mistaking Control for Strategy
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#Venezuela #UnitedFruit #SamePlaybook #ForeignPolicy #EconomicWarfare #HistoryRepeats #Geopolitics #PowerAndMarkets #LatinAmerica #OilPolitics #AmericanIntervention
First edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude: Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1967. Depicts a boat, resting on stylized plants (perhaps agave), with a forest in the background. By Book cover, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27066856
Today in #LaborHistory 12/5/1928: Colombian military slaughtered 2,000 #workingclass people on #strike against #UnitedFruit. Márquez depicted it in his #novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
#massacre #colombia #communism #GabrielGarciaMarquez #fiction #novel #books #author #writer
"Girl in Red" advertisement for Lucky Strike; shot by Nickolas Muray, a photographer enlisted by Bernays to help popularize feminine thinness and cigarette smoking. Show a beautiful young woman, staring off into the distance, while hold a cigarette. She is wearing lots of jewelry, an ornate red dress, and a matching red silk shawl draped over her head and shoulders. By Nickolas Muray - George Eastman House from Rochester, NY, United States via LUCKY STRIKE, GIRL IN RED"Uploaded by PDTillman, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14001222
Today in #LaborHistory 11/22/1891: Edward Bernays was born, father of #PublicRelations. Got millions of #women to start smoking with “Torches of Freedom” ad campaign, equating smoking with #liberation. Also did #propaganda to legitimize #CIA #UnitedFruit #coup in #Guatemala
Police mug shots of Fletcher
Today in #LaborHistory 6/3/1913: #IWW Marine Transport Workers #Union in #NewOrleans #strike against #UnitedFruit. June 13 #police killed 2 workers. IWW organized much of Eastern Seaboard. Controlled all but 2 #Philadelphia docks. Led by #BenFletcher.
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#Hubris #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Imperialism #UnitedFruit Piero Gelijeses unparalleled scholarship 1954 #Guatemala
D'un côté, des “barons voleurs” comme #Rockefeller construisent d'immenses empires industriels avec le soutien de JP Morgan à #WallStreet et d'un président adepte des tarifs douaniers
C'est la naissance de #GeneralElectric, #AT&T, #UnitedFruit et de nombreuses autres multinationales étatsuniennes
Workers on a #Guatemala plantation load #bananas onto a United Fruit Company train. #UnitedFruit became the poster child for American economic #imperialism in the 20th Century, giving rise to the term “banana republic.”
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#history #podcast
1954, #CIA deposed Arbenz govt for #UnitedFruit, leading to decades of #genocide against Guatemala’s #indigenous population. Head of #CIA was United Fruit board member, Allen Dulles, who also overthrew PM of Iran (1953), Bay of Pigs (1961), and the #MKUltra #LSD mind control experiments.
First edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude: Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1967. Depicts a boat, resting on stylized plants (perhaps agave), with a forest in the background. By Book cover, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27066856
Today in #LaborHistory 12/5/1928: Colombian military slaughtered 2,000 #workingclass people on #strike against #UnitedFruit. Márquez depicted it in his #novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
#massacre #colombia #communism #GabrielGarciaMarquez #fiction #novel #books #author #writer
