Faster access than browser!
157 relations: Agronomy, Allen Dulles, American Financial Group, Andrew Preston, Ann C. Whitman, Atlántida Department, Augusto Monterroso, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Banana republic, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Black sigatoka, Bogotazo, Bordeaux mixture, Boston, Boston Fruit Company, Bradley Palmer, Canongate Books, Canto General, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Carl Lindner Jr., Carlos Castillo Armas, Carlos Cortés Vargas, Carlos Luis Fallas, Carmen Lyra, Cartagena, Colombia, Central Intelligence Agency, Chiquita Brands International, Ciénaga, Magdalena, Cincinnati, Colombia, Colombian conflict, Colombian Conservative Party, Communism, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Competition law, Confiscation, Corporate raid, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cuban exile, Cuban Revolution, Cuyamel Fruit Company, Dole Food Company, Dominance (economics), Doubleday (publisher), Duke University Press, Eastern Bloc, Ecuador, Edward Elgar Publishing, ..., El Progreso, Eli M. Black, Enclave economy, Fidel Castro, Francisco Bertrand, Fulgencio Batista, Fusarium wilt, Gabriel García Márquez, General officer, General strike of 1954, Great Depression, Guatemala, Harry S. Truman, Harvard Business Review, Harvard University Press, Henry Meiggs, Honduras, Hurricane Fifi–Orlene, Imperialism, Infobase Publishing, Jacobo Árbenz, Jamaica, John Foster Dulles, John Moors Cabot, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, La Ceiba, La Violencia, Land use, Lee Christmas, Limón, Lloyd's Register, Lorenzo Dow Baker, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, Macmillan Publishers (United States), Manuel Bonilla, Marco Aurelio Soto, Massachusetts, MetLife Building, Miguel Abadía Méndez, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Miguel R. Dávila, Minor Cooper Keith, Multinational corporation, National Army of Colombia, National Front (Colombia), Neocolonialism, New Orleans, O. Henry, Oliver Stone, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Oriente Province, Oswaldo López Arellano, Pablo Neruda, Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Panama disease, Petroleum, Pound sterling, Próspero Fernández Oreamuno, President of Colombia, Proceedings (magazine), Puerto Cortés, Ralstonia solanacearum, Ramón Amaya Amador, Ramón Villeda Morales, Reefer ship, Sam Zemurray, San José, Costa Rica, San Pedro Sula, Santa Marta, Slate (magazine), Smithfield Foods, Spanish–American War, Standard Fruit Company, Steven Van Zandt, Sullivan & Cromwell, Takeover, Tela, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Independent, The New Zealand Herald, Trade unions in Costa Rica, Tropico, Trujillo, Honduras, Turbo-electric transmission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Union of Banana Exporting Countries, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, United States, United States dollar, United States Naval Institute, United States Secretary of State, University of North Carolina Press, University Press of Florida, Vaccaro brothers, Vladimir Lenin, War Shipping Administration, West Indies, Wilson Popenoe, Workman, Clark and Company, World War II, Zaculeu, Zamorano, 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane, 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, 1970s energy crisis. Expand index (107 more) »
Agronomy
Agronomy (Ancient Greek ἀγρός agrós 'field' + νόμος nómos 'law') is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, fiber, and land reclamation.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Agronomy · See more »
Allen Dulles
Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Allen Dulles · See more »
American Financial Group
American Financial Group Incorporated is an American financial services holding company based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
New!!: United Fruit Company and American Financial Group · See more »
Andrew Preston
Andrew Woodbury Preston (1846–1924) was a prominent American businessman at the turn of the 20th century.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Andrew Preston · See more »
Ann C. Whitman
Ann C. Whitman (June 11, 1908 – October 15, 1991) was a native of Perry, Ohio.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ann C. Whitman · See more »
Atlántida Department
Atlántida is a department located on the north Caribbean shore of Honduras, Central America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Atlántida Department · See more »
Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (December 21, 1921 - February 7, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Augusto Monterroso · See more »
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio (March 30, 1926 – October 12, 1972) was a Colombian journalist, novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio · See more »
Banana republic
In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas, minerals, etc.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Banana republic · See more »
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Playa Girón or Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos or Batalla de Girón) was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Bay of Pigs Invasion · See more »
Black sigatoka
Black tsigatoka is a leaf-spot disease of banana plants caused by the ascomycete fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis (Morelet).
New!!: United Fruit Company and Black sigatoka · See more »
Bogotazo
El Bogotazo (from "Bogotá" and the ''-azo'' suffix of violent augmentation) refers to the massive riots that followed the assassination in Bogotá, Colombia, of Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer Gaitán on 9 April 1948 during the government of President Mariano Ospina Pérez.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Bogotazo · See more »
Bordeaux mixture
Bordeaux mixture (also called Bordo Mix) is a mixture of copper(II) sulfate (CuSO4) and slaked lime (Ca(OH)2) used as a fungicide.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Bordeaux mixture · See more »
Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Boston · See more »
Boston Fruit Company
The Boston Fruit Company (1885-1899) was a fruit production and import business based in the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Boston Fruit Company · See more »
Bradley Palmer
Bradley Webster Palmer (1866–1946) was a prominent U.S. attorney and businessman.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Bradley Palmer · See more »
Canongate Books
Canongate Books (often simply Canongate) is a Scottish independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh; it is named for the Canongate, an area of the city.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Canongate Books · See more »
Canto General
Canto General is Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poems.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Canto General · See more »
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Caribbean · See more »
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Caribbean Sea · See more »
Carl Lindner Jr.
Carl Henry Lindner Jr. (April 22, 1919 – October 17, 2011) was an American businessman from Norwood, Ohio, and one of the world's richest people.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Carl Lindner Jr. · See more »
Carlos Castillo Armas
Carlos Castillo Armas (November 4, 1914 – July 26, 1957) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Carlos Castillo Armas · See more »
Carlos Cortés Vargas
Carlos Cortés Vargas (1883-1954) was a Colombian general, most noted for ordering the Santa Marta massacre in response to a strike of United Fruit workers in 1928.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Carlos Cortés Vargas · See more »
Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas Sibaja (January 21, 1909 – May 7, 1966), also known as Calufa (from the initial syllables of his first, middle and last name), was a Costa Rican author and political activist.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Carlos Luis Fallas · See more »
Carmen Lyra
Carmen Lyra (1888 – May 13, 1949) was the pseudonym of the first prominent female Costa Rican writer, born Maria Isabel Carvajal Quesada.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Carmen Lyra · See more »
Cartagena, Colombia
The city of Cartagena, known in the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Cartagena de Indias), is a major port founded in 1533, located on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cartagena, Colombia · See more »
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
New!!: United Fruit Company and Central Intelligence Agency · See more »
Chiquita Brands International
Chiquita Brands International Sàrl, formerly known as Chiquita Brands International Inc., is a Swiss producer and distributor of bananas and other produce.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Chiquita Brands International · See more »
Ciénaga, Magdalena
Ciénaga is a municipality and a town in the Magdalena Department, Colombia, the second largest population center in this department, after the city of Santa Marta.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ciénaga, Magdalena · See more »
Cincinnati
No description.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cincinnati · See more »
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Colombia · See more »
Colombian conflict
The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and far-left guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to increase their influence in Colombian territory.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Colombian conflict · See more »
Colombian Conservative Party
The Colombian Conservative Party (Partido Conservador Colombiano) is a conservative political party in Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Colombian Conservative Party · See more »
Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Communism · See more »
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Communist Party of the Soviet Union · See more »
Competition law
Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Competition law · See more »
Confiscation
Confiscation (from the Latin confiscare "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Confiscation · See more »
Corporate raid
In business, a corporate raid is the process of buying a large stake in a corporation and then using shareholder voting rights to require the company to undertake novel measures designed to increase the share value, generally in opposition to the desires and practices of the corporation's current management.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Corporate raid · See more »
Costa Rica
Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Costa Rica · See more »
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cuba · See more »
Cuban exile
The term "Cuban exile" refers to the many Cubans who fled from or left the island of Cuba.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cuban exile · See more »
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cuban Revolution · See more »
Cuyamel Fruit Company
Cuyamel Fruit Company, formerly the Hubbard-Zemurray Steam Ship Company, was an American agricultural corporation operating in Honduras from 1911 until 1929, before being purchased by the United Fruit Company.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company · See more »
Dole Food Company
Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Dole Food Company · See more »
Dominance (economics)
Market dominance is a measure of the strength of a brand, product, service, or firm, relative to competitive offerings.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Dominance (economics) · See more »
Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Doubleday (publisher) · See more »
Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Duke University Press · See more »
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Eastern Bloc · See more »
Ecuador
Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ecuador · See more »
Edward Elgar Publishing
Edward Elgar Publishing is a global publisher of academic books, journals and online resources in the social sciences and law.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Edward Elgar Publishing · See more »
El Progreso
The municipality of El Progreso is located in the Honduran department of Yoro.
New!!: United Fruit Company and El Progreso · See more »
Eli M. Black
E.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Eli M. Black · See more »
Enclave economy
An enclave economy is defined as an economic system in which an export based industry dominated by international or non-local capital extracts resources or products from another country.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Enclave economy · See more »
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Fidel Castro · See more »
Francisco Bertrand
Francisco Bertrand Barahona (1866–1926) was twice President of Honduras, first from 28 March 1911 to 1 February 1912, and then again between 21 March 1913 and 9 September 1919.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Francisco Bertrand · See more »
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and U.S.-backed dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Fulgencio Batista · See more »
Fusarium wilt
Fusarium wilt is a common vascular wilt fungal disease, exhibiting symptoms similar to Verticillium wilt.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Fusarium wilt · See more »
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Gabriel García Márquez · See more »
General officer
A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines.
New!!: United Fruit Company and General officer · See more »
General strike of 1954
The general strike of 1954 was a watershed political and economic event in the history of Honduras that ushered in widespread change.
New!!: United Fruit Company and General strike of 1954 · See more »
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Great Depression · See more »
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Guatemala · See more »
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Harry S. Truman · See more »
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Harvard Business Review · See more »
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Harvard University Press · See more »
Henry Meiggs
Henry Meiggs (July 7, 1811 – September 30, 1877), was a promoter/entrepreneur and railroad builder born in Boston, Massachusetts.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Henry Meiggs · See more »
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Honduras · See more »
Hurricane Fifi–Orlene
Hurricane Fifi (later Hurricane Orlene) was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed between 3,000 and 10,000 people in Honduras in September 1974, ranking it as the fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Hurricane Fifi–Orlene · See more »
Imperialism
Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Imperialism · See more »
Infobase Publishing
Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Infobase Publishing · See more »
Jacobo Árbenz
Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (September 14, 1913 – January 27, 1971), nicknamed The Big Blonde (Guatemalan El Chelón) or The Swiss (El Suizo) for his Swiss origins, was a Guatemalan military officer who was the second democratically elected President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Jacobo Árbenz · See more »
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Jamaica · See more »
John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888May 24, 1959) was an American diplomat.
New!!: United Fruit Company and John Foster Dulles · See more »
John Moors Cabot
John Moors Cabot (December 11, 1901 – February 24, 1981) was an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to four nations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration.
New!!: United Fruit Company and John Moors Cabot · See more »
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (January 23, 1903 – April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943–1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán · See more »
La Ceiba
La Ceiba is a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and La Ceiba · See more »
La Violencia
La Violencia (The Violence) was a ten-year civil war in Colombia from 1948 to 1958, between the Colombian Conservative Party and the Colombian Liberal Party, fought mainly in the countryside.
New!!: United Fruit Company and La Violencia · See more »
Land use
Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Land use · See more »
Lee Christmas
Lee Christmas (February 2, 1863 – January 24, 1924) was an American mercenary in Central America.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Lee Christmas · See more »
Limón
Puerto Limón, commonly known as Limón (Spanish for "lemon"), is the capital city and main hub of Limón province, as well as of the cantón (county) of Limón in Costa Rica.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Limón · See more »
Lloyd's Register
Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Lloyd's Register · See more »
Lorenzo Dow Baker
Lorenzo Dow Baker (March 15, 1840 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts – June 21, 1908) was an American sailor, ship's captain and businessman whose 1870 voyage from the Orinoco to Jamaica and then to Philadelphia launched the modern banana production industry.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Lorenzo Dow Baker · See more »
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Louisiana · See more »
Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press that was founded in 1935.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Louisiana State University Press · See more »
Macmillan Publishers (United States)
Macmillan Publishers USA was the former name of a now mostly defunct American publishing company.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Macmillan Publishers (United States) · See more »
Manuel Bonilla
General Manuel Bonilla Chirinos (7 June 1849 – 21 March 1913) was President of Honduras from 13 April 1903 to 25 February 1907, and again from 1 February 1912 to 21 March 1913.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Manuel Bonilla · See more »
Marco Aurelio Soto
Marco Aurelio Soto (13 November, 1846—25 February, 1908) was President of Honduras from 27 August 1876 until 19 October 1883.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Marco Aurelio Soto · See more »
Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Massachusetts · See more »
MetLife Building
The MetLife Building is a 59-story skyscraper at 200 Park Avenue at East 45th Street above Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
New!!: United Fruit Company and MetLife Building · See more »
Miguel Abadía Méndez
Miguel Abadía Méndez (July 5, 1867 – May 15, 1947) was the 12th President of Colombia (1926–1930).
New!!: United Fruit Company and Miguel Abadía Méndez · See more »
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Miguel Ángel Asturias · See more »
Miguel R. Dávila
General Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuellar (19 September 1856–11 October 1927) was President of Honduras between 18 April 1907 and 28 March 1911.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Miguel R. Dávila · See more »
Minor Cooper Keith
Minor Cooper Keith (19 January 1848 – 14 June 1929) was an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and shipping enterprises much influenced the national economies of the Central American countries, and that of Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Minor Cooper Keith · See more »
Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Multinational corporation · See more »
National Army of Colombia
The National Army of Colombia (Ejército Nacional de Colombia) is the land military force of Colombia and the largest and oldest service branch of the Military Forces of Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and National Army of Colombia · See more »
National Front (Colombia)
National Front (Frente Nacional 1958–1974) was a period in the history of Colombia in which the two main political parties, the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, agreed to rotate power, intercalating for a period of four presidential terms.
New!!: United Fruit Company and National Front (Colombia) · See more »
Neocolonialism
Neocolonialism, neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country in lieu of direct military control (imperialism) or indirect political control (hegemony).
New!!: United Fruit Company and Neocolonialism · See more »
New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
New!!: United Fruit Company and New Orleans · See more »
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer.
New!!: United Fruit Company and O. Henry · See more »
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American writer and filmmaker.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Oliver Stone · See more »
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and One Hundred Years of Solitude · See more »
Oriente Province
Oriente (Spanish for "East" or "Orient") was one of six provinces of Cuba until 1976.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Oriente Province · See more »
Oswaldo López Arellano
Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano (30 June 1921 – 16 May 2010) was a two-time President of Honduras, first from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1972 until 1975.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Oswaldo López Arellano · See more »
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Pablo Neruda · See more »
Panama
Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Panama · See more »
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá) was an unincorporated territory of the United States from 1903 to 1979, centered on the Panama Canal and surrounded by the Republic of Panama.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Panama Canal Zone · See more »
Panama disease
Panama disease is a plant disease of the roots of banana plants.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Panama disease · See more »
Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Petroleum · See more »
Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Pound sterling · See more »
Próspero Fernández Oreamuno
Juan Primitivo Próspero Fernández Oreamuno (July 18, 1834 – March 12, 1885) was President of Costa Rica from 1882 to 1885.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Próspero Fernández Oreamuno · See more »
President of Colombia
The President of Colombia (Presidente de Colombia), officially known as the President of the Republic of Colombia (Presidente de la República de Colombia) is the head of state and head of government of Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and President of Colombia · See more »
Proceedings (magazine)
Proceedings is a 96-page monthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Proceedings (magazine) · See more »
Puerto Cortés
Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a city on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Puerto Cortés · See more »
Ralstonia solanacearum
Ralstonia solanacearum is an aerobic nonspore-forming, Gram-negative, plant pathogenic bacterium.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ralstonia solanacearum · See more »
Ramón Amaya Amador
Ramón Amaya Amador (April 29, 1916 – November 24, 1966) was a Honduran author known for his radical left-wing politics.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ramón Amaya Amador · See more »
Ramón Villeda Morales
José Ramón Adolfo Villeda Morales (November 26, 1909 – October 8, 1971) served as President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Ramón Villeda Morales · See more »
Reefer ship
A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship, typically used to transport perishable commodities which require temperature-controlled transportation, such as fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, dairy products and other foods.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Reefer ship · See more »
Sam Zemurray
Samuel Zemurray (nicknamed "Sam the Banana Man"; born Schmuel Zmurri on January 18, 1877, in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, present-day Chişinău, Moldova; died November 30, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana) was a Jewish businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Sam Zemurray · See more »
San José, Costa Rica
San José (literally meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica.
New!!: United Fruit Company and San José, Costa Rica · See more »
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras.
New!!: United Fruit Company and San Pedro Sula · See more »
Santa Marta
Santa Marta, officially Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta ("Touristic, Cultural and Historic District of Santa Marta"), is a city in Colombia.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Santa Marta · See more »
Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Slate (magazine) · See more »
Smithfield Foods
Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a meat-processing company and wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Smithfield Foods · See more »
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-estadounidense; Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Spanish–American War · See more »
Standard Fruit Company
Standard Fruit Company (now Dole Food Company) was established in the United States in 1924 by the Vaccaro brothers.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company · See more »
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt (born November 22, 1950) is an American musician and actor, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Steven Van Zandt · See more »
Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an international law firm headquartered in New York City.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Sullivan & Cromwell · See more »
Takeover
In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the target) by another (the acquirer, or bidder).
New!!: United Fruit Company and Takeover · See more »
Tela
Tela is a town in Honduras on the northern Caribbean coast.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Tela · See more »
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
New!!: United Fruit Company and The Cincinnati Enquirer · See more »
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
New!!: United Fruit Company and The Independent · See more »
The New Zealand Herald
The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.
New!!: United Fruit Company and The New Zealand Herald · See more »
Trade unions in Costa Rica
Trade unions in Costa Rica advocate for the rights of workers in Costa Rica.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Trade unions in Costa Rica · See more »
Tropico
Tropico is a construction and management simulation video game developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Tropico · See more »
Trujillo, Honduras
Trujillo is a city and a municipality on the northern Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colón, of which the city is the capital.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Trujillo, Honduras · See more »
Turbo-electric transmission
Turbo-electric transmission uses electric generators to convert the mechanical energy of a turbine (steam or gas) into electric energy and electric motors to convert it back into mechanical energy to power the driveshafts.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Turbo-electric transmission · See more »
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.
New!!: United Fruit Company and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · See more »
Union of Banana Exporting Countries
The Union of Banana Exporting Countries (Unión de Países Exportadores de Banano or UPEB) was a 1974 cartel of Central and South American banana exporting countries, inspired by OPEC.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Union of Banana Exporting Countries · See more »
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defenders of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC, in Spanish) was a Colombian paramilitary and drug trafficking group which was an active belligerent in the Colombian armed conflict during the period from 1997 to 2006.
New!!: United Fruit Company and United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia · See more »
United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
New!!: United Fruit Company and United States · See more »
United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
New!!: United Fruit Company and United States dollar · See more »
United States Naval Institute
The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense and security issues.
New!!: United Fruit Company and United States Naval Institute · See more »
United States Secretary of State
The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America, and as head of the U.S. Department of State, is principally concerned with foreign policy and is considered to be the U.S. government's equivalent of a Minister for Foreign Affairs.
New!!: United Fruit Company and United States Secretary of State · See more »
University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina.
New!!: United Fruit Company and University of North Carolina Press · See more »
University Press of Florida
The University Press of Florida (UPF) is the scholarly publishing arm of the State University System of Florida, representing Florida's twelve state universities.
New!!: United Fruit Company and University Press of Florida · See more »
Vaccaro brothers
Vaccaro brothers originally from Sicily were Italian-American businessmen.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Vaccaro brothers · See more »
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by the alias Lenin (22 April 1870According to the new style calendar (modern Gregorian), Lenin was born on 22 April 1870. According to the old style (Old Julian) calendar used in the Russian Empire at the time, it was 10 April 1870. Russia converted from the old to the new style calendar in 1918, under Lenin's administration. – 21 January 1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Vladimir Lenin · See more »
War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the US needed for fighting the war.
New!!: United Fruit Company and War Shipping Administration · See more »
West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
New!!: United Fruit Company and West Indies · See more »
Wilson Popenoe
Frederick Wilson Popenoe (March 9, 1892 – June 20, 1975) son of Fred O. Popenoe and brother of Paul Popenoe, was a graduate of Pomona College and a United States Department of Agriculture employee and plant explorer.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Wilson Popenoe · See more »
Workman, Clark and Company
Workman, Clark and Company was a shipbuilding company based in Belfast.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Workman, Clark and Company · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: United Fruit Company and World War II · See more »
Zaculeu
Zaculeu or Saqulew is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site in the highlands of western Guatemala, about outside of the modern city of Huehuetenango.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Zaculeu · See more »
Zamorano
The Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School (Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano), generally known as El Zamorano or Zamorano, is a private, coeducational university located in the valley of the Yeguare river, Honduras.
New!!: United Fruit Company and Zamorano · See more »
1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane
1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane, (dibromochloropropane) better known as DBCP, is the active ingredient in the nematicide Nemagon, also known as Fumazone.
New!!: United Fruit Company and 1,2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane · See more »
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954.
New!!: United Fruit Company and 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état · See more »
1970s energy crisis
The 1970s energy crisis was a period when the major industrial countries of the world, particularly the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages, real and perceived, as well as elevated prices.
New!!: United Fruit Company and 1970s energy crisis · See more »
Redirects here:
La United Fruit Co., UFCO, United Fruit, United Fruit Co, United Fruit Co., United Fruit Lines, United Fruits Company, United fruit, United fruit co, United fruit company.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
