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M. acuminata favors wet tropical climates in contrast to the hardier M. balbisiana, the species it hybridized extensively with to provide almost all modern cultivars of edible bananas. [18] Subsequent spread of the species outside of its native region is thought to be purely the result of human intervention. [19]
The term "banana wars" was popularized in 1983 [2] by writer Lester D. Langley. Langley wrote several books on Latin American history and American intervention, including:The United States and the Caribbean, 1900–1970 and The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. His work regarding the Banana Wars encompasses the ...
In what became known as the "Banana Wars", between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934, the U.S. staged many military invasions and interventions in Central America and the Caribbean. [16] One of these incursions, in 1903, involved regime change rather than regime preservation.
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
A long-term international research project studied the effect of taking resistant starch, which is also found in oats, cereal, beans and cold pasta.
Did a massive cleanup effort to remove nitrogen from Narragansett Bay inadvertently made it too clean for quahogs? Or is climate change to blame?
Since banana exports came to dominate the overseas trade and most of the foreign exchange earnings of Central American countries, and the companies could use their financial clout as well as carefully established connections with local elites, they had great influence over politics in those areas, leading O. Henry, who lived in Honduras (which ...
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years.. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band ...