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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(3):512-514; doi:10.1093/es/khi068
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Marcelo Bucheli. Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 241 pp. ISBN 0-8147-9934-5, $45.00 (cloth).

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The United Fruit Company (UFC) long has been maligned as an imperial bastion of American business interests, quick to exploit its workers for a buck and slow to return profits to where its commodity is extracted. This interpretation came early to Colombian critics after a 1928 massacre of striking workers left hundreds, maybe thousands, dead. Gabriel Garcia Marquez exaggerated the details of this violence for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and few others have believed the company did more . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ian William Read

Stanford University


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