The United Fruit Company in Guatemala

United fruit and other american conglomerates like dole had successfully sunk their hooks into honduris, columbia and, of course, cuba. According to one 19 36 est over the previous 37 years, united fruit shareholders received an annual return of 17 point seven, five %,. several times higher than the market average. The life expectancy for an indigenous guatomalin during the ubico years was under forty years old; it 50 years old for the white lidino ethnic majority nation wide. Vagrancy laws required indigenous guatomalins at least a hundred days a year to work on the fincas for a fixed price of five cents a day. Decree one eight