A Company Owned An Entire Country. A Fungus Destroyed It. #didyouknow #hiddenhistory

The United Fruit Company owned more land in Guatemala than the Guatemalan government. It owned the only railway, the only port, and the only telegraph system. It paid zero taxes.
When Guatemala's democratically elected president tried to redistribute the company's unused land back to Guatemalan farmers the company hired the CIA. Operation PBSUCCESS a real, declassified CIA operation organised a military coup in 1954. Democracy was overthrown. UFC kept its land.
Then Panama disease arrived. A soil fungus with no cure destroyed the entire Gros Michel banana monoculture within a decade. The company that overthrew a government to protect its bananas lost every single banana.
The banana you are eating right now is an emergency replacement. It is currently being destroyed by the same fungus. Tropical Race 4 is spreading worldwide with no solution.
History is repeating itself. Same logic. Same crop. Same ending.
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