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Rotten Bananas

In 1934, under Jorge Ubico Casteñada, a vagrancy law was commissioned in Guatemala forcing 150 eight hour days of farming on all workers as a minimum. It provided seemingly endless labor to enrich American landowners and started something in Guatemala similar to sharecropping, with the farmers making the minimum profit and landowners getting rich. At this point, United Fruit began to climb to it’s peak. In ...

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