The Disturbing Business of Bananas

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The disturbing business of bananas – a documentary looking at the dark history of the banana industry & The United Fruit Company. This involves the coup in Honduras, the banana massacre, and overthrowing the democratically-elected Guatemalan leader.

The banana industry is responsible for massacres, revolutions, wars, and secret deals with the CIA. At one point, the world’s largest banana company practically acted like a government in Central America, controlling most of their land and infrastructure. They were responsible for overthrowing presidents who tried to give workers more rights, and installing leaders who helped the banana companies make more money. Honestly, after this video, you will never look at a banana the same way again. This is the disturbing true story of the banana business.

In episode 1 of this banana business series, we looked at the rise of Sam, the banana man – how a penniless immigrant made a fortune selling ripe bananas, and worked his way up to becoming a major player in the banana business. But in this episode, we’re going to look at what happened next, as once Samuel Zemurray became involved with a company called United Fruit, the story takes a much darker turn. If you enjoy dark business documentaries about powerful corporations, the disturbing history of the banana industry is for you.
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The Disturbing Business of Bananas
The DEADLY Business of Bananas
The Evil Business of Bananas

⏲️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 The Disturbing Business of Bananas (Intro)
01:06 1910: Revolution (Sam overthrows a government)
07:12 The Unstoppable Rise of United Fruit (How they became so dominant)
11:06 1915 – 1930: The Banana War (Sam & Cuyamel Fruit Vs United Fruit)
20:44 AG1 Deal
21:48 1928: The Banana Massacre (How United Fruit dealt with strikes)
24:26 1932: “Retirement” (Sam returns and seizes control of United Fruit)
31:45 Mid 1930’s: Disease (Why bananas aren’t the same as they used to be)
36:31 1939 – 1945: World War II (How the war nearly killed the banana business)
39:21 1940’s – 1950’s: The Coup (How United Fruit & The CIA overthrew a democratically elected leader)
47:44 1950’s – Present: The Final Chapter (What happened after Sam left United Fruit)
50:46 Epilogue (John’s thoughts)

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49 thoughts on “The Disturbing Business of Bananas”

  1. 🍌 Part 1: https://youtu.be/j6muUD2SUk8

    The banana industry has a very dark past… massacres, wars, and overthrowing democratically elected leaders (on multiple occasions). At one point, they essentially had more power in Central American countries than their own governments did, and they exploited that fully.

    But as well as looking at all that, this video continues the story of Sam Zemurray – who in part 1 had started out selling ripe bananas, but then expanded his company (Cuyamel Fruit) to try and compete with the dominant industry leader, United Fruit. This is the story of how Sam kept pushing things further, and eventually became the banana king. But at what cost?

    Honestly though, despite all the madness the banana industry is involved with, one of the strangest things I learnt from researching all this is that a banana is classified as a berry… wtf.

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  8. well done just watched this and it was very good quality and I love the script and the way you are explaining this was very good I love your videos thank you for making them so good

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  13. This was so interesting and i see why it caught you so much. Very well done on the whole movie.
    As an aside, the US government are so fucking sinister its scary.

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  23. I am not a wise man and perhaps I comment beyond my understanding of things. Yet from all that I have read over the years, I cannot help but come to the conclusion that the spoils of capitalism are always the same; chaos, war, destruction, poverty for the masses so that the few at the top of the pyramid can reap the rewards.
    I don't know what the alternative is though. The childish idealist within me would love to see a sort of collectivism but I couldn't go any further than just throw that idea out there as I have no idea how such a thing would arise or flourish but I know there's got to be something better than this.

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  24. I love the Epilogue, John's thoughts, bit at the end. it's great that you separate your objective reporting from your subjective opinions, and then let us know what you think about the story.
    i'm sure i'm not alone in wanting to know what you think about these mad up stories you regale 🙂
    thanks for the mini movies, such an adventure every time 👍

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  36. I hope the CIA doesn’t see this, but gosh dang. The amount of information you give. You make so understandable for me, thank you! Love your videos

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  38. With these videos, I'd love to see you do a video about the 5 families involved in taking control of Hawaii. Alot of people don't understand how powerful these old companies were. A big name of those families is still on most of our fruit products today.

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  40. As someone who has lived in Guatemala for a few months, I can clearly state: the echoes of the atrocities made there by these related events are still dragging the country down… Those affected people deserve much better life than they are forced to live nowadays 😢

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  43. The United States will do what it feels it needs to in the name of "National Security" 🤣 Lmao what a joke! 🤣 The government has creeped it's way into every crack and crevice of this planet so that they may stick their noses and everybody else's business in the name of "Democracy" and do it by force if necessary. By any means necessary.
    Be well everyone 🙏🏻 And don't always believe what you hear or see for that matter. We only see what they allow us to see.

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