“Let me give you a few examples. Arévalo has approved a labor law that permits the formation of unions in businesses and farms and allows workers and peasants to join. And he has drafted an antimonopoly law based on already existing legislation in the United States. You can imagine what a measure to ensure equal competition would mean for United Fruit: if it didn’t ruin us completely, at the least we’d be looking at a major decline in revenues. Our profits are not just the result of our hard work, our commitment, the money we spend to prevent diseases, or the forest we clear to plant more
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