
There Will Be Bananas
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Colombian Workers Strike Against United Fruit
In 1928, 32,000 banana workers go on strike in Colombia. When the higher ups at United Fruit can't win of this, they panicked. Meanwhile, US officials there were trying to figure out how to deal with the situation. These are communists. These are subverses. And they must be stepped.
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