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CIA: The Fruit Company That Toppled a Government and Started a Civil War
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35:12Now PlayingIn 1954, the United States government helped a banana company destroy a democracy... and almost nobody talked about it for decades.
In this episode, Vanessa Richardson traces how a teenage immigrant selling overripe bananas in Alabama built a corporation so powerful it had its own army, owned an entire country's infrastructure, and called in the CIA when the Guatemalan president dared to challenge it.
Eventually, the company rebranded. And you probably have their fruit in your kitchen right now…
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