The Fruit Company That Overthrew Governments

In 1954, a fruit company picked up a phone in Boston — and three weeks later the elected president of Guatemala was gone. United Fruit owned the land, the railroads, and the ports across Central America, controlling whole countries so completely the term 'banana republic' was coined to describe them. When Guatemala's leader tried to give farmland back to peasants, the company lobbied Washington, and the CIA backed a coup. — ABOUT THIS SERIES — Bankrupt Empire is the corporate-dark-history lane on Sinister Business — The Dark Side of Business. Cinematic mini-documentaries on the companies and schemes that bought countries, courts, and lives. New episodes regularly. — SUBSCRIBE — New Bankrupt Empire episodes drop regularly. The bell helps the channel a lot. #sinisterbusiness #bankruptempire #history #documentary #truecrime