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6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Too simplistic, April 12, 2001
This video while it has its merits, lacks the thoroughness of a real docu-biography. It completely skips the Arbenz experiment in Guatemala. It does not detail the atrocities of the United Fruit Company and the U.S. in seizing over 70% of Guatemalan farmland from the indigenous people even though the United Fruit Monopoly was using 40% of this territory leaving the rest untilled. United Fruit Co. desired to keep the peasants off the land so they will not compete with them in the fruit business or any other firm.Check this poem out by the classic and canonical writer/poet Pablo Neruda: The United Fruit Co. When the trumpet sounded, everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waste of America It rebaptized these countries Banana Republics, and over the sleeping dead, over the unquiet heroes who won greatness, liberty, and banners, it established an opera buffa: it abolished free will, gave out imperial crowns, encouraged envy, attracted the dictatorship of flies. Trujillo flies, Tachos flies Carias flies, Martinez flies, Ubico flies, flies sticky with submissive blood and marmalade, drunken flies that buzz over the tombs of the people circus flies, wise flies expert at tyranny With the bloodthirsty flies came the Fruit Company, amassed coffee and fruit in ships which put to sea like overloaded trays with the treasures from our sunken lands. Meanwhile the Indians fall into the angry depths of the harbors and are buried in the morning mists, a corpse rolls, a thing without name, a discarded number, a bunch of rotten fruit thrown on the garbage heap. Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute!!
Cuba is not Guatemala!!...
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