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Jan 29
fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: “Working On A Banana Plantation” Image taken in a United Fruit Company plantation in Tiquisate, Guatemala, in 1945. Nine years later, the UFC would conspire with the United States government to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán when his land appropriation policies threatened the company’s business interests in the country. From the photo archives of Life magazine.

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

“Working On A Banana Plantation”

Image taken in a United Fruit Company plantation in Tiquisate, Guatemala, in 1945. Nine years later, the UFC would conspire with the United States government to overthrow Guatemala’s democratically-elected president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán when his land appropriation policies threatened the company’s business interests in the country.

From the photo archives of Life magazine.

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