Anonymous
30th January 2003, 22:05
"It's important that I don't get too knowledgeable about the past."
So spoke Wallace Booth on becoming president of United Brands back in 1975. Booth had plenty of reason to wish for amnesia.
After all, he had just succeeded Eli Black who left United Brands by jumping through his office window on the 44th floor of the old Pan Am Building in New York.
Black was just about to be exposed for giving a $1.25-million bribe to the president of Honduras.
United Brands was then the new name for the notorious United Fruit banana monopoly. Now it's got another new name: Chiquita Brands International.
The Cuban people--under the leadership of Fidel Castro-- remembered well the tragedy of Guatemala. They defeated the CIA invasion. And they took back all the land that United Fruit owned in Cuba--land that today's Helms-Burton Law is meant to return to U.S. corporate owners.
Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute!!!!
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/043.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~mbucheli/chronology.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/julbulus/sartreche.jpg
So spoke Wallace Booth on becoming president of United Brands back in 1975. Booth had plenty of reason to wish for amnesia.
After all, he had just succeeded Eli Black who left United Brands by jumping through his office window on the 44th floor of the old Pan Am Building in New York.
Black was just about to be exposed for giving a $1.25-million bribe to the president of Honduras.
United Brands was then the new name for the notorious United Fruit banana monopoly. Now it's got another new name: Chiquita Brands International.
The Cuban people--under the leadership of Fidel Castro-- remembered well the tragedy of Guatemala. They defeated the CIA invasion. And they took back all the land that United Fruit owned in Cuba--land that today's Helms-Burton Law is meant to return to U.S. corporate owners.
Millions for defense but not one penny for tribute!!!!
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/043.html
http://www.stanford.edu/~mbucheli/chronology.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/julbulus/sartreche.jpg