Banana Massacre , 1928

Bananas are one of the world's most appealing fruits. It is healthy and it is realy beneficial if you add it in to your nutritonal habits. However the story behind the monopoly behind the banana manufacturing is not quite appealing for us. In 1928 one of the banana company called Chiquita caused a brutal massacre in Colombia.

The Story Behind Banana Massacre

The story begins with a riot from the banana workers in Colombia , due to insuficcient working conditions and low wages , these workers decided to riot untill they get what they deserve. However when we think about the time that happened the laws were not that regulated and strict.

In order to get a decent working conditions the workers continued this riot for a month. After company realized this is going to be a greater problem , because they can't figure it out how to finish this riot. Obviously State involved in order to solve this matter and threaten Colombian goverment to invade them , if they don't solve this problem and protect the interests of the United Fruit Company.

Not surprisingly the Colombian Goverment felt threatened because of this ultimatom from USA and they sent Colombian Army to prevent this riot. Colombian Army warned the workers to quit this nonsense however workers continued their riot after 5 minutes of warning they shoot all the banana workers to solve this problem.

The General who leads the army accepts that they killed 47 workers , however in other sources it says that the number was 3000 and after doing this massacre they threw the fellow workers bodies to the sea. United Fruit Company still struggling with law suits because of that incident happened in 1928.

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