crazy thing how US citizens say degrading things abt Banan Republics as if they are totally ignorant of the fact tha their country created them?? wow so ignorant and so critical with no knwledge of their own country´s involvement!!
Ignorance and without knowledge. The way the companies like it. But if you are hatefull and resentful of the common people who do not know better, instead of the evil companies that enslave the banana republics, then that is the way the company likes it as well.
I know these companies spend millions making investments into these shitholes, building roads and giving the natives jobs. Then the ungrateful natives stole company land and assets and are poor today because they have proved themselves to be uninvestable.
The description here of how long it takes to grow bananas is the same as it is in my own yard. The statement that bananas ripening on the plant lose flavor is false though. Home grow bananas always taste better than store bought. It is amazing how those little guys could handle the heavy banana bunches, as someone like me who is 6'6" tall finds it a struggle to carry the bunch without damaging bananas. Therefore I use a Bobcat bucket to stand in and cut only a few hands off at a time from the plant.
Yes I'm sure the people of Guatemala in a 36 years of genocide. death squads kicking in their door and taking their land on behalf of a foreign power, really owe a lot to them. All to make the major shareholder of the United fruit company, CIA director Allen Dulles, rich.
The united fruit company (with help from Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, who had ties to Sullivan and Cromwell, a law firm that represented UFC.) funded a coup in guatemala in 1954, overthrowing the progressive leader Arbenz, and installing the military dictator, Armas, who allowed the UFC to continue to buy up all of the Guatemalan land and exploit the local labor. THIS VERY COUP lead to a civil war in Guatemala that lasted 4 decades. Millions of Guatemalans and Mayans were slaughtered under this new regime and Guatemala has never been the same since. This is all EXTENSIVELY documented, i suggest you read more into it than the 1 paragraph summary i just gave to you. Considering your life was changed positively by the money and power this company accumulated, maybe you should learn this history. F*** united fruit company.
These were shown to social studies classes in U.S. public schools. The alleged mistreatment of the pickers is hardly a perspective that should have been foisted upon impressionable youngsters.
@@tripprawlings9284 They should learn about all the oppressive Regimes they propped up, the reason why so many nations hate the USA is because the USA installed so many Military Dictators in South America and beyond: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Ghana, Colombia. It is important to learn about History even the bad sides, if Americans only learn about the good things America has done, The people who will lead the nation will not learn from the mistakes of the past. For a country so keen on Liberty and Freedom they sure do love taking away Liberty and Freedom from others for Money
Excerpts of this appeared in the "Backyard" episode from CNN's "Cold War" (1998), when events in Guatemala during the late 1940s and early 1950s were discussed.
84 years on, this has not aged that well. the verbiage has me rolling. oh shite, he said it again. i am a white guy who somehow worked some bananas down in mexico. B R U T A L work. absolutely no joke but to see them doing it old school...holy Chiquita's. this is definitely going in the save category. did you catch the people processing them here for sale. oh no they did not. madness but a hoot
Se puede ver como no era tan rígido el control de calidad del banano para exportar en esos tiempos. Hoy no puede embarcarse un racimo que tenga una sola mancha negra (esos quedan para el mercado local) Me gusta ver ese proceso de antaño que pese a sus carencias ya reflejaba ser admirable y ordenado. Mucha gente se queja de la Ufco en guatemala, de que eran explotadores y evasores de impuestos, etc. Pero los mismos campesinos están de acuerdo en que era mil veces mejor trabajar en las plantaciones de la ufco que trabajar en las plantaciones de un terrateniente guatemalteco...
In 1954, the United Fruit Company, with the help of the United States government, overthrew the democratically elected Arbenz, in Guatemala. In a secret operation that they did not tell the world about. Many people, Americans and Guatemalans do not know this history. Operation Success. Arbenz wanted to give the un-used land that ufco owned, to peasants and farmers, so that they could use it and have good lives. Ufco did not like this, and financially backed a man named Carlos Castilla Armas to overthrow Arbenz, and he did. This lead to the civil war in guatemala that lasted from 1954-1980s i believe. I want people to know this story, it is well researched and documented. Operation success. Please tell people about it.
Sh*t, maybe I could get you a job with United Fruit. I got a buddy with United Fruit. Get you started. Start with strawberries, you might work your way up to these goddamn bananas.
You get a G0d damned job before sundown Or we’re shipping you off to military school with that GOdamned Finklestein sh1t kid!!!!! Son of a beeeatch!!!!
bleh I had to write an essay on how much incredible cultural appropriation, white supremecy, and racism is in this film it actually makes me sick. all of my evidence about what they were saying was so incredibly sarcastic because these people are so ignorant and awful. yikes:0
Taylor, I hope you got an "A" on your essay. Would love to see the final version. One of the reasons films like this are important, is to provide perspective on the past -- in some cases a truly ugly past.
These Mayans are part of the 10 tribes of Israel they’ve been here 3000 years after the Syrian captivity with the most high God quieted the great Euphrates river which they crossed took them 18 months that’s how they got to the New World
"Cyberpunk isn't real, a company can make influence on goverments"
Me an intellectual:
crazy thing how US citizens say degrading things abt Banan Republics as if they are totally ignorant of the fact tha their country created them?? wow so ignorant and so critical with no knwledge of their own country´s involvement!!
Ignorance and without knowledge. The way the companies like it. But if you are hatefull and resentful of the common people who do not know better, instead of the evil companies that enslave the banana republics, then that is the way the company likes it as well.
I know these companies spend millions making investments into these shitholes, building roads and giving the natives jobs. Then the ungrateful natives stole company land and assets and are poor today because they have proved themselves to be uninvestable.
@@Reaganator2 Reagan 😂
@@TheBucketSkill ouch. Separate companies from average citizens. They’ll rip us off too you know.
I have to wonder about the Columbian Red now.
This is amazing Copywriting. Brilliant ad.
gotta love that hokey orchestra
The description here of how long it takes to grow bananas is the same as it is in my own yard. The statement that bananas ripening on the plant lose flavor is false though. Home grow bananas always taste better than store bought. It is amazing how those little guys could handle the heavy banana bunches, as someone like me who is 6'6" tall finds it a struggle to carry the bunch without damaging bananas. Therefore I use a Bobcat bucket to stand in and cut only a few hands off at a time from the plant.
Best and worst of United Fruit. I say this as someone who grew up in the shadow of the United Fruit Company and owes a lot to them.
Yes I'm sure the people of Guatemala in a 36 years of genocide.
death squads kicking in their door and taking their land on behalf of a foreign power, really owe a lot to them.
All to make the major shareholder of the United fruit company, CIA director Allen Dulles, rich.
The united fruit company (with help from Allen Dulles, director of the CIA, who had ties to Sullivan and Cromwell, a law firm that represented UFC.) funded a coup in guatemala in 1954, overthrowing the progressive leader Arbenz, and installing the military dictator, Armas, who allowed the UFC to continue to buy up all of the Guatemalan land and exploit the local labor. THIS VERY COUP lead to a civil war in Guatemala that lasted 4 decades. Millions of Guatemalans and Mayans were slaughtered under this new regime and Guatemala has never been the same since. This is all EXTENSIVELY documented, i suggest you read more into it than the 1 paragraph summary i just gave to you. Considering your life was changed positively by the money and power this company accumulated, maybe you should learn this history.
F*** united fruit company.
But they not tell the slaughter of Bananeras...
These were shown to social studies classes in U.S. public schools.
The alleged mistreatment of the pickers is hardly a perspective that should have been foisted upon impressionable youngsters.
@@tripprawlings9284 They should learn about all the oppressive Regimes they propped up, the reason why so many nations hate the USA is because the USA installed so many Military Dictators in South America and beyond: Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Ghana, Colombia. It is important to learn about History even the bad sides, if Americans only learn about the good things America has done, The people who will lead the nation will not learn from the mistakes of the past. For a country so keen on Liberty and Freedom they sure do love taking away Liberty and Freedom from others for Money
@@LocalBaron russia and china phelps dictatorships un Vietnam, Venezuela, some african countries, nicaragua, etc..
@@erikzelada5578 that means they´re equal USA
@@erikzelada5578 so that justify the American empire to murder, steal and ruin democracy in Central America. Non of them are good.
Excelent documental
Excerpts of this appeared in the "Backyard" episode from CNN's "Cold War" (1998), when events in Guatemala during the late 1940s and early 1950s were discussed.
84 years on, this has not aged that well. the verbiage has me rolling. oh shite, he said it again. i am a white guy who somehow worked some bananas down in mexico. B R U T A L work. absolutely no joke but to see them doing it old school...holy Chiquita's. this is definitely going in the save category. did you catch the people processing them here for sale. oh no they did not. madness but a hoot
You can definitely tell the narrator is a gringo because of the way he pronounces "Costa Rica".
Se puede ver como no era tan rígido el control de calidad del banano para exportar en esos tiempos. Hoy no puede embarcarse un racimo que tenga una sola mancha negra (esos quedan para el mercado local) Me gusta ver ese proceso de antaño que pese a sus carencias ya reflejaba ser admirable y ordenado. Mucha gente se queja de la Ufco en guatemala, de que eran explotadores y evasores de impuestos, etc. Pero los mismos campesinos están de acuerdo en que era mil veces mejor trabajar en las plantaciones de la ufco que trabajar en las plantaciones de un terrateniente guatemalteco...
Muy interesante. Nunca he oido que los campesinos prefirieron trabajar para la ufco que un Guatemalteco.
In 1954, the United Fruit Company, with the help of the United States government, overthrew the democratically elected Arbenz, in Guatemala. In a secret operation that they did not tell the world about. Many people, Americans and Guatemalans do not know this history. Operation Success. Arbenz wanted to give the un-used land that ufco owned, to peasants and farmers, so that they could use it and have good lives. Ufco did not like this, and financially backed a man named Carlos Castilla Armas to overthrow Arbenz, and he did. This lead to the civil war in guatemala that lasted from 1954-1980s i believe. I want people to know this story, it is well researched and documented. Operation success. Please tell people about it.
On behalf of the fruit stand end-users. Our semiannual meeting at the Las Vegas Nevada Flamingo Hilton garden buffet Champagne is still on
Sh*t, maybe I could get you
a job with United Fruit.
I got a buddy with United Fruit.
Get you started. Start with strawberries,
you might work your way up to these goddamn bananas.
Yes i want Money from bananas
Bend and scoop like the Mexicans!
You get a G0d damned job before sundown
Or we’re shipping you off to military school with that GOdamned Finklestein sh1t kid!!!!!
Son of a beeeatch!!!!
@@alexanderalex577 You Know Bend and Scoop Like the Mexicans!
Anyone know the exact year of this?
About 1935.
@@brianthompson5843 Interesting, I've seen this same film titled Journey To Bananaland elsewhere
This is from 1950
21:09 pobre se nota q no le gusto T-T
They're doing it with Avocados again. hahahaha
What next they gonna do it with pineapple? You must kidding me
bleh I had to write an essay on how much incredible cultural appropriation, white supremecy, and racism is in this film it actually makes me sick. all of my evidence about what they were saying was so incredibly sarcastic because these people are so ignorant and awful. yikes:0
Taylor, I hope you got an "A" on your essay. Would love to see the final version. One of the reasons films like this are important, is to provide perspective on the past -- in some cases a truly ugly past.
Don’t you have a statue to knock over???
Cry a river 😫😫😫
the darkest chapter of Guatemala when cia and this company destroyed the country throwing down Jacobo Arbenz Guzman presidency in 1954
All races of bananas are welcome
15:07 noice shot
this is 1950s since it's in color
No. Color film existed as early as the 1930s.
Gone with the wind or wizard of ozz
Great WHITE fleet.
Banana.
*y e s*
so true
Atomic age Banana's
Except for Chiquita bananas
Middle America 🤔
The workers worked 14 hour days slave labor.
ok 1928 on the toloa ruclips.net/video/L7l4JApHuBc/видео.html
Christopher Columbus was a great man!!!
The racist remarks of the narrator are pure 1950s. Waspy guy
What racism, I watched the whole thing, never said anything racist
@@jordanhicks5131 it’s the people who see racism in everything that are the real racists.
@@jordanhicks5131 Anything is ""racist"" to these people
These Mayans are part of the 10 tribes of Israel they’ve been here 3000 years after the Syrian captivity with the most high God quieted the great Euphrates river which they crossed took them 18 months that’s how they got to the New World
you mormon?
Neruda Theodorakis La United Fruit Co CANTO GENERAL