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Quoted in Stephen M. Streeter, ‘Interpreting the 1954 US intervention in Guatemala: Realist, revisionist and postrevisionist perspectives’, The History Teacher, 34:1 (2000). In 1972, United Fruit sold its remaining interests in Guatemala to Del Monte. United Fruit changed its name to Chiquita Brands in 1989. Chiquita attracted controversy for paying Colombian paramilitaries in 1997–2004; while it admitted the payments, it said they were extorted. In 2014, Chiquita was sold to a Brazilian consortium.
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
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