Banana Boat

In the 50's, the CIA led an undercover operation to overthrow Guatemala's uprising Democracy. The reason? It took power out of the hands of the elite, especially the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita).


In Guatemala peasants were struggling and Democracy was arisin
under Arbenz optimistic , on the mend, young and thrivin
giving land back to the peasants and admiring FDR
They were a new world presence on the tracks on the radar
and the united fruit company, decided you see
they just couldn't give up their hegemony
there were cheap banana prices and cheap indigineous labor
they called the place communistic, thought they'd do US a fava
it was the time of the soviets so thats the card that they did use
said the reds are gonna get us and noone called em on this ruse
-and so the CIA they created fear and terrorism
under ed bernays they made a country harrowing
and mind controlled and misled into a revolution
a radio played on underground to create some mass confusion
and annihilated equal rights, equal pay, democracy
the only good was for UFC it was a big hypocricy
in violent resistance over 200 K were murdered
and it was 40 years before the truth was even heard of
in 90 gh bush proclaimed no more foreign aid
but CIA was still right there trying to have their way
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And so at last the civil war ended in 96
a democracy arose but poverty it still exists
as well as a divide between the haves and have nots
the indigineous are poor, the others are not
and from la antigua all the way up to tikal
the past is still alive, the mayans still dont fall
at this point in 2010 Colom leads the nation
and they continue to fight poverty with earnestness, frustration

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/21/from_%C3%81rbenz_to_zelaya_chiquita_in
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Classified-Operations-Guatemala/dp/08047...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• guatemala
• arbenz
• revolution
• democracy
• cia
• chiquita
• united
• fruit
• company
• money
• politics
• suppression
• social
• injustice

[jubileeshine]

wow that was unexpected. well done.  what prompted that?

[ozjthomas]

@jubileeshine =)

[janeczka]

Kick ass animation!

[ozjthomas]

@janeczka ty j =)

[FoodOrFail]

Well done!

[ozjthomas]

@FoodOrFail thnx

[thefilthypoliticians]

incredibly engaging with the animation, music, and the message.

[ozjthomas]

@PurpleLizzard81 :)