Jews, the United Fruit Company & Zionists in Latin America

[FrankDialogue]

This is just a little tidbit of history regarding doings in Latin America, specifically Central America, Guatemala, Honduras...Serious students of history probably are aware of the United Fruit Company and it's interconnection with the US Government involving coups, massacres and foreign policy in Central America...What many students are not fully conscious of is the role of the Octopus in formenting this policy of oppression and fuedalsim...I throw this out so we can go a little under the surface...The role of JPMorgan Bank is also noteworthy.................................................................Frank D.



The Octopus in Latin America





Samuel Zemurray

The United Fruit Company

United Fruit's business was bananas and from bananas it built an empire. Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama were known as the " banana republics" but United Fruit's reach extended further : to Belize, former British Honduras, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia and Equador.

Its story began in 1871 when General Guardia in Costa Rica assigned the task of building a railway to Henry Meiggs, with his two nephews Henry Keith and Minor Keith in charge of the actual construction.

The money ran out when the railway had advanced only four miles and in 1873 when the market crashed, Henry Keith went home leaving both the railway and his younger brother stranded.

Other contractors were called in but Minor Keith stayed on and began to plant bananas in the cleared areas by the side of the line. Towards the end of the 1870s President Guardia approached him with the suggestion that he should take over the building of the railway completely. The railroad required freight to survive and bananas fitted the bill.

The death of President Guardia in 1882 put Keith into a key position. He controlled two industries on which the nation's future depended. With the grant of more land than he could possibly use, he set out creating enormous plantations.

Costa Rica's railway reached completion in 1890 and Keith moved into the outlying reaches of Colombia, buying extensive banana land on the Caribbean coast. Colombian business men had already developed a banana zone and had constructed their own railways, but lacked the contacts to build up an international market.

Keith established an informal partnership with Andrew Preston's fruit company in Boston and when the United Fruit Company was established in 1899 it already spread across Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Colombia, Jamaica and the Dominican republic. It was a giant farm of a little less than 250,000 acres or 1,000 square kilometres of which only one third was tilled that controlled three-quarters of the banana market and, by taking over shipping companies and importers, it raised its share of the banana market to between 80/90% - effectively all of it.

Guatamala had been building its own railway using its coffee to pay for it, but when the coffee money ran out, Minor Keith was invited to finish the job. Rather than cash in payment he asked merely for enough land to grow bananas. As in Costa Rica bananas would pay for the railway.

The contract allowed three years for the work but heavy rains dogged the project and under the new contract signed in 1904 United Fruit took full control of the railway on the Atlantic side. This included all rolling stock etc., all of which had been built at national expense. The company had gained huge new banana lands, would pay no taxes, while the government waived all rights to view the company's books. Before long the company would take over the nation's railroad on the Pacific side too.

If Minor Keith and Andrew Preston founded the empire of United Fruit. its fate and development for the next fifty years were in the hands of Sam Zemurray . A Jewish immigrant from Russia who began to buy and sell bananas in New Orleans. Zemurray' s risky investments left him short of cash and soon after United Fruit's formation in 1899 with his sights on Honduras, he proposed that it would buy a 60% stake in his company. Having sold control of his company to United Fruit and not having sufficient cash to pay for United Fruit's share, he remained in the company's debt and in secret partnership.

Minor Keith started with his usual railway for land scheme but Honduras and Nicaragua turned him down. In 1910 United Fruit adopted a different tactic with the arrival of Sam Zemurray in Honduras. Heavily indebted to United Fruit who had sold his company back to him in exchange for an IOU, Zemurray borrowed $ 200,000 and bought expanses of land and claimed the usual tax concessions which were refused not by Honduras but by the bankers J. P. Morgan who were angling for control of the finances of Honduras.

Zemurray then went to Washington with a plan to buy a boat, fill it with assorted mercenaries and crooks and overthrow the Honduran government.

The coup of 1911 was successful and Zemurray got his tax concessions and the go-ahead to develop his lands. Elections were staged to confirm General Manuel Bonilla as President and Zemurray the "Banana Man" was put in charge of national finances. United Fruit denied any involvement and Zemurray presented the company with two large concessions of land and cleared his debts. Having become increasingly concerned about the company's image as the "evil octopus" Zemurray had hired Edward Bernays, the father of public relations and a nephew of Sigmund Freud.

In the late 1920s Bernays achieved fame with his book "Propaganda" and its concern with the "group mind" :

    " this did not think but instead had instincts, habits and emotions. The key was for some force to harness them. The force was propaganda or the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses. This process of manipulation was an unseen mechanism of society and those that made use of it were an invisible government and the true ruling power of the country."

Between the period 1911 to 1928 violent strikes hit United Fruit in its former lands and its response was less than benevolent.

Following the Civil War United Fruit served the function of rebranding slavery. It hired, fired and controlled labour, through its own security forces. It provided basic bunkhouse facilities and had the workers spend their wages at the company store.

Up to that time the banana and the railways had been kept separate in strict legal terms. But with Keith's retirement and the risk of a take-over, it was decided in November 1929 to form a new United Fruit in which Zemurray was the main shareholder. In 1931 during the depression with his fortune beginning to collapse Zemurray travelled to Boston for a shareholders' meeting and having managed to win the support of discontented shareholders he, as major shareholder, took over the company.

But United Fruit's world was going rotten. In the Central American region it claimed a total of 100,000 acres. but two diseases, products of monoculture in enormous plantations had a disastrous effect. As banana cultivation deteriorated the company moved on. The manner of its retreat was disastrous. Jobs, livelihoods and whole communities vanished. It ripped up railway tracks, dismantled bridges and any materials it wanted to keep it loaded on trucks and moved out doing nothing for the people it left behind.

Zemurray found a solution called Bordeaux Mixture that combined copper sulphate, water and lime . Experts cautioned him against the over use but he had it pumped on to the plantations in increasing quantities. Without controlling the disease, the Bordeaux Mixture being pumping on the fruit left a residue in the holds of the banana ships which combined with sea water and rotted the ships from the inside.

Costa Rica showed signs of making a break from banana republicanism and Guatamala leaned towards more radical leaders.

On assuming office in 1952 the Eisenhower administration appointed Jack Peurifoy (?) as ambassador to Guatamala, whose President Arbenz had announced a plan of land reform to break up a number of large land holdings and distribute small areas to landless farmers.

To United Fruit the case for a coup was straightforward. In losing some of its lands it had been subjected to an act of virtual expropriation and theft. The government had used the land's book value -( the company had undervalued the land for years in order to save on its taxes) and now protested that everyone knew that the value of the land declared for tax was not the true one. The Guatamalan government was warned that the US government was assuming responsibility for the company's claim. According to its calculation United Fruit claimed it was being cheated out of $16 million and the State Department sent Guatamala the bill.

In March 1954 having won the battle against the "forces of evil" in Guatamala, the Secretary of State, Dulles instructed the ambassador that United Fruit was to get back its land confiscated by Arbenz.

Generally the company had managed to retreat in time from any attacks on its practices and to rejoin those who controlled society's "unseen mechanisms" as Edward Bernays the company's propaganda adviser had put it, so it came as a shock when the Department of Justice was allowed to go ahead with its anti-trust case against the company.

United Fruit continued to dispute the anti trust case for several years but mainly ran up against Washington's wish to be seen to be behaving in a different way in Latin America.



Eli 'Black'

After Sam Zemurray's death in November 1961, one of the largest share deals on the US Stock Market in 1968 took place when Eli Black a devote Jew with ten generations of rabbis behind him, took over the United Fruit Company and absorbed it into his United Brands Group.

Under his leadership United Fruit appeared to get off to a good start but a little more than five years later in 1975 he threw himself from the forty-fourth floor of the Pan-American Building on New York's Park Avenue.

Business was not thriving. A new banana disease had struck United Fruit's plantations in the early 1970s. Latin America's banana-producing countries had set up a cartel of their own, UTEB, the Union of Banana Exporting Countries.

It appeared also that the famously moral and late departed chief of United Fruit had not been what he seemed. He had bribed members of the military government of Honduras thinking that the inducement of one and a quarter million dollars might encourage them to pull Honduras out of the banana cartel that waged war on United Fruit. This was nothing new but Wall Street was outraged and the company's shares crashed .

In the late 1970s, Eli Black's misdeeds and the case that had been brought against United Fruits' owner, United Brands, had been quietly closed with a token fine of $15,000. United Brands left town and changed its name to Chiquita.

United Fruit fought wars from the Honduran invasion of 1911 to Guatamala in 1954 or had others do battle on its behalf as in Colombia in 1928. Its pursuit of its business interests had huge international repercussions. The attempt to repeat the Guatamalan exercise of 1954 and the thinking behind the idea that Fidel Castro would topple as a result of the Bay of Pigs received a repeat run in the case of Iraq forty years later. The anticipated cheers for the Iraq invasion were also echoes from the US's successful intervention in United Fruit's old Caribbean territory of Grenada in 1983.

United Fruit showed how countries might slip into dependancy on large companies. It worked its way into the fabric of Costa Rican and Guatamala society by invitation because it had the resources that these countries lacked. Like multi-national companies today United Fruit made alliances when and where it could to survive. It sought out malleable elements, politicians with whom it could cut a deal. Its levels of bribery in Honduras during the 1920s did prompt a debate in the US Congress that ended with the conclusion that it was the way business was done in such parts of the world.

United Fruit's practices remain much valued in today's business world though "propaganda" now goes under the title of "public relations".

The banana has for century been a first rate example of packaging . It exudes health in its natural wrapping while being diseased at its roots. A formidable force in the art of political lobbying, the company made sure it was on the " inside" and connected to the top people in government.

What is the role of large US defence contractors in Iraq or the oil companies in Nigeria?

In the 1970s economic theorists concluded it was time for a dramatic change in policy. Costs would have to be cut in state spending on schools, hospitals and other areas of the Welfare State. Such thinking was in line with the theory devised by Professor Milton Friedman, adopted by Margaret Thatcher and put into practice by General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. who turned his country into a laboratory for an exercise into capitalism while the United States and the world therefore went for the full capitalist anarchy option, namely globalisation (Judaism).

http://www.postremus.com/unitedfruit.html

JPMorgan/Wall Street Role

See under 'The Guatemalan Coup'

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Thanks for posting this one Frank D.

We found a few things on this evil Jew:


SCANDALS: Energy, Bananas and Israeli Drugs (and Laundered Jew Scammed Cash) -United Fruit

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Here's a quote from the "Jew Corrupter" series:

The Honduran economy in the 1980s was based on the banana trade controlled by Standard Fruit and United Fruit in New Orleans. The New Orleans mafia fused the drug trade with the banana trade through use of the same route. Joe Macheca, New Orleans mafia boss, and his successor Charles Matranga had close ties to United Fruit. . The Vaciaro brothers, Sicilian immigrants to New Orleans with connections to international syndicates, founded Standard Fruit. Honduras exported 87 kg of European morphine to the US through use of the banana trade route. (p.51-2)



    Central America's railroad empire was built by New Orleans mafiosos employed by United Fruit. (p.52)



    Guy Maloney, a soldier of fortune and police chief of New Orleans, led an invasion of Honduras in 1911 that was financed by Samuel Zemurray, a US banana entrepenuer who became in 1930 United Fruit's largest shareholder in charge of United Fruit's operations in Central America. In 1930 Guy Maloney again led a mercenary revolt in Honduras that installed Tiburcio Carias Andino in power. Carias took control of the drug trade and authorized use of the Honduran airline TACA for drug shipments. A 1975 coup replaced Oswaldo Lopez Arellano with Humberto Regalado Lara as president. Arellano retired to direct the airline Tan-Sasha which transported coke controlled by Regalado to the US. In 1978 Policarpo Paz Garcia was brought to power in Honduras in a coup financed by Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. This coup was responsible for connecting Honduras to Mexican syndicates and the CIA Contra supply apparatus thereby making it a drug trafficking center in Latin America. US economic assistance to Honduras tripled between 1978-80. (p.53-4)



    SETCO, Matta's airline, was the chief transporter of supplies to the FDN and was paid for its services through a bank account established by Oliver North. The airline was also used for Matta's smuggling operations, which were carried out through his contacts with Policarpo Paz, Col. Leonides Torres Arias, head of Honduras' military intelligence unit G-2, and Duane Clarridge, CIA station chief in Latin America. (p.55-6)

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[FrankDialogue]

This Guatemalan thing looks like a case of 'co-operation' between the Jews and the WASPs (maybe like the Dutch Jews and Oliver Cromwell)...Zemurray basically destroys his own company through greed and carelessness and then strips anything of value left on United Fruit property in Guatemala, leaving thousands unemployed...Then Guatemala gets a new president Jacobo Arbenz (maybe Sephardic Jew) who decides to stifle unrest by redistributing land to peasants...Zemurray still legally owns land, but seems to have a partner now, Allan Dulles CIA...So, after a time, CIA send in mercs and goons and slaughter starts...President Arbenz is accused of being a communist, and is overthrown...A murdering Colonel Castillo gets installed as president, but gets assassinated 3 years later.