Jan
29
“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.
(via fylatinamericanhistory)