• Ari Putri Purnaningsih

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TEAM 1
• Pinky Prilidhia Maharani Putri
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• Dzaky Mu'amar Rafli

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• Dimas Fajar Febrianto

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The Dark
History
Of
Bananas
John Soluri
THE DARK HISTORY OF
BANANAS

Sub Topics:
Manuel Bonilla reclaiming power In Disease outbreak from bananas
Honduras Gros Michel

Bribery of Officials Government Strikes thousands of fruit workers

In Central America
 THE DARK HISTORY OF
BANANAS Manuel
Bonilla
reclaiming
power in
Honduras
Manuel Bonilla,
boarded a borrowed
yacht in New Orleans.
With a group of heavily armed
accomplices, he set sail for
Honduras in hopes of reclaiming
power by whatever means necessary.
THE DARK HISTORY OF
BANANAS

Bribery of
Officials
Government In
Central America

Fruit companies in the

U.S bribed the
government to get their
own land. Funding a coup to make
sure they have an ally and repaid the banana
man who helped with land concessions.
 THE DARK HISTORY OF
BANANAS

Disease
outbreak from
bananas Gros
Michel
United Fruit’s plantations
grew exclusively Gros
Michel bananas. These densely
packed farms had little biological
diversity and fragile connecting
infrastructure can quickly spread
disease.
THE DARK HISTORY OF
BANANAS

Strikes thousands of
fruit workers

After World War II, the

dictatorships with which United Fruit had
partnered in Guatemala and Honduras
yielded to democratically elected
governments that called for land reform.
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