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The United Fruit Company ... — Pablo Neruda, "La United Fruit Co." (1950) The business practices of United Fruit were also frequently criticized by journalists ...
In his poem "La United Fruit Co.", Pablo Neruda denounced the corporate subjugation of Latin America. In his book Canto General (General Song, 1950), Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–73) denounced foreign corporate political dominance of Latin American countries with the four-stanza poem "La United Fruit Co."; the second-stanza reading in part ...
In 1950, Neruda wrote a famous poem, “United Fruit Company,” referencing the United Fruit Company, founded in 1899, that controlled many territories and transportation networks in Latin America. He was a communist who believed corporations such as this were exploiting Latin America and hurting them.
The United Fruit Company was formed on March 30, 1899, the result of a merger between the nearly bankrupt Tropical Trading and Transport Company and Boston Fruit. On its formation, United Fruit
The former headquarters of the United Fruit Company, in New Orleans. The company played a key role in instigating the 1954 coup d'état. By 1950, the United Fruit Company's (now Chiquita) annual profits were 65 million U.S. dollars, [b] twice as large as the revenue of the government of Guatemala. [54]
As an author he is best known for his novels Mamita Yunai (1940), which denounced the harsh condition endured by workers for the United Fruit Company and which is referenced in Pablo Neruda's Canto General, and for Marcos Ramírez (1952), a humorous bildungsroman about the life of a Costa Rican boy in the early 20th century, taken largely from ...
Among them, his friendship with Pablo Neruda, whom he met in 1940 in Mexico, [87] stands out, as well as his relationships with Giuseppe Bellini, an Italian scholar, [88] and Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra, a Salvadoran writer for whom he wrote the preface to the book Cuentos de sima y cima.
Cuyamel Fruit Company was founded in the 1890s by William Streich, a speculator who bought land near the Cuyamel River in Honduras.The company soon ran out of money and was purchased around 1905 by the Russian born Samuel Zemurray, who used it as part of the beginning of his growing banana trade operation.