Colombia 1928 In 1928 workers in the Colombian banana zone in the Department of Magdalena went on strike against the United Fruit Company. Workers in the region had been organizing for a decade, creating unions such as the Unión Sindical de...

The United Fruit Company was a major American corporation that traded tropical fruit (primarily bananas and pineapples) grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of Minor C....

Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000. By Marcelo Bucheli. New York: New York University Press, 2005. xi + 239 pp. Figures, maps, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-814-79934-5. Foreign investment is one of the most important topics...

In the first half of the twentieth century, the United Fruit Company, based in Boston, Massachusetts, created an impressive network that produced bananas in Colombia for distribution to the U.S. market. The company grew its own fruit but relied as well on local entrepreneurs....