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Latin America

MisterP

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5. and tangled as well as long--the CIA dropped UFCO like a rotten Cavendish

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #4)

Mon May 26, 2014, 05:36 PM

May 2014

once Arbenz was overthrown--it wasn't even really done to benefit UFCO; most of these conspirators sorta hate each other for "horning in" on their turf

Latin American politics is VERY literary (sometimes the words break Google Translate they're so arcane--"anfictionía"?)

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are they moving back in? MisterP May 2014 #1

Thanks for the information on early Banana Republic Presidents and United Fruit Judi Lynn May 2014 #2

DU doesn't take Unicode in links, I learned MisterP May 2014 #3

Wow. Those tentacles are always longer than people realize, aren't they? Judi Lynn May 2014 #4

and tangled as well as long--the CIA dropped UFCO like a rotten Cavendish MisterP May 2014 #5

That's ripe! The CIA must not have wanted its name associated with anything unsavory! n/t Judi Lynn May 2014 #6