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    What modern day company was known as the United Food Company, responsible for corporate atrocities in Central America and influencing U.S. foreign policy in the late 1800's?

    Question #92747. Asked by augusta123. (Feb 23 08 10:26 PM)


    queproblema

    		Chiquita.

    Scroll down past the third photo on the page to verify:

    "The company, in the meantime, had changed its name from United Fruit to Chiquita, a deliberate reincarnation in the form of the smiling, banana-form woman that the firm hoped would distract the public from its dark history."

    Chiquita is one of the iconically evil faces of ruthless capitalism in South America.

    http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2007/fall/robertson-octopus-cathedral-salt/

    Feb 24 08, 12:23 AM

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