#chiquita #banana #murder #theguardian
Vídeo describes how the Chiquita Banana company has sponsored murder in their business model .
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/oct/24/how-the-banana-industry-funded-violence-video
@AnnetteTRemain I had no idea !! I’m still in shock!!
@Jorro Guatemala civil war.
@Jorro est 140,000–200,000 dead or missing. Bananas and coffee. Honestly I thought it was reverse racism where people would call us gringo's due to racism. I had no idea we were responsible for a coup d'état which led to a bloody and long war along with terrorism with both sides. Not trying to do "both sides" thing just trying to point out how dangerous and bloody it got. And pretty recent. They are still healing.
@AnnetteTRemain same here , no idea !! It is unbelievable!!
@Jorro I found out by questioning some odd graffiti I was saw. I don't remember what it was but it was something about the US and I didn't understand it.
@AnnetteTRemain that is an important way of expression ( or was , it’s been decades since I left Mexico ) you can know the problems by reading them .
@Jorro I wish I remembered what it said. I read it out loud and a lot of surrounding people froze as an American read it out loud. There was no hostility toward me. More shock on both sides to not know.
@Jorro True. Think about how one persons graffiti was read by me then I told you. How many saw the message and learned something from it and told others.
@AnnetteTRemain yes, I never did it but they were popular back then , I don’t know now .
@Jorro Something to remember when we talk about their gangs and violence and corruption. Some of that came about after our involvement.
@Jorro Similar to how we used to terrorize and kill black people, condense them in small space, give them no education or jobs, then pretend how some behave is natural to the people when we created the conditions deliberately. Of course people are selling drugs when we have blocked all legal jobs. Of course they are working with criminals when all legal avenues are deliberately blocked. I'm not a big open borders person but I cannot stand the lies about how some things happened.
@AnnetteTRemain yes it has !!
@Jorro Both sides would massacre civilians then claim the other party did it. A thing to remember during war. Don't always know who is telling truth.
@AnnetteTRemain I had no idea !!!
@AnnetteTRemain I finally had time to read it , it is sad , really sad .
@Jorro true. Hard to believe something so innocent at grocery store could be tied to war but it and many other commodities have come at human price.