: From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America!

: When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana,! writes journalist Nikolas Kozloff.: Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company joined Dole in criticizing the government in Tegucigalpa which had raised the minimum wage by 60%.! Kozloff goes on to trace Chiquita´s: long and sordid! political history in Central America. [includes rush transcript]

Nikolas Kozloff, journalist and author of Revolution!: South America and the Rise of the New Left.

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