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Doing Business with the Dictators
A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944
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1993
Summary
The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96% of Guatemala's 719 miles of railroad, making the multinational corporation Guatemala's largest private landowner and biggest employer. In Doing Business with the Dictators, Paul J. Dosal shows how UFCO built up a profitable corporation in a country whose political system was known to be corrupt. His work is based largely on research of company documents recently acquired from the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act-no other historian researching this topic has looked at these sources. As a result, Dr. Dosal is able to offer the first documentary evidence of how UFCO acquired, defended, and exploited its Guatemalan properties by collaborating with successive authoritarian regimes.
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Copyright year
1993
ISBN-Print
978-0-8420-2475-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-585-12090-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
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About the Author No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Figures and Maps No access
Chapter 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 2 The Liberals Lay the Foundations No access Pages 17 - 36
Chapter 3 An Empire Is Born No access Pages 37 - 54
Chapter 4 Minor Keith and Caudillo Politics No access Pages 55 - 74
Chapter 5 United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Battle for Motagua, Part I No access Pages 75 - 94
Chapter 6 The Democratic Interlude No access Pages 95 - 118
Chapter 7 The Puerto Barrios Strike No access Pages 119 - 140
Chapter 8 The Battle for Motagua, Part II No access Pages 141 - 160
Chapter 9 Expansion to the Pacific No access Pages 161 - 182
Chapter 10 The Octopus No access Pages 183 - 204
Chapter 11 The United States versus United Fruit No access Pages 205 - 224
