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There Will Be Bananas

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Plantations and Bananas in Central America

In around 1910, a disease cropped up in Panama, destroying every banana tree in its path. United fruit had to spend a lot of money developing these new plantations but they needed to keep making a profit. So something had to be squeezed and the workers? The workers were killed.

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