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...“The United Fruit Company took for itself the juiciest piece [of Latin America], the central coast of my world, the delicate waist of America,” he wrote. “It baptised these lands as Banana Republics.”...
...Chiquita, based in North Carolina, has a strong presence in North America, where it competes with large global rivals Del Monte and Dole....
...Its success has seen San Francisco taxi rides fall by two-thirds in less than two years and caused Hailo, a London-based taxi app, to exit North America complaining it was impossible to compete with Uber...
...In the past three years, Facebook has introduced new rules to regulate gun sales, fruit producer Chiquita Brands has stopped using fuel from Canada’s tar sands and Starbucks volunteered to pay more tax than...
...Wawro, a University of North Texas professor, offers a remarkably fresh and unsentimental analysis of an empire on its last legs....
...For many years, United Fruit, long ago renamed Chiquita Brands, has been embroiled in a lawsuit after it admitted to paying protection money to guerrillas and paramilitary groups in western Colombia....
...There’s also some interesting language in the press release related to private equity investors who might be looking to invest in failed FDIC-insured institutions: Due to the interest of private equity...
...the United States....
...- business sale” for US corporations....
...An outgrowth of the United Fruit Company - which for years influenced the politics of Central America, giving rise to the phrase "banana republics" - Chiquita has engineered an about-turn in the way it does...
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