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Live in Chicago: How Public Relations Works

Stuff You Should Know

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What Can You Do?

United Fruit owned all this land, this fallow land. It wasn't even being used. He was able to build some roads through the country and actually provide competition to the United Fruit which would become Chiquita. No, that's not okay. So they went to their friends at the CIA and said, guys, what can you do? And they talked to the right guy because Edward Bernays said, let's just overthrow the government. Yeah. They literally overthrew the government.

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