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| {{Infobox company|name=United Fruit Company|founding_date=March 30, 1899|industry=[[Agriculture]]|predecessors=[[Boston Fruit Company]]<br>[[Tropical Trading & Transport]]|defunct=June 30, 1970 (as United Fruit Company)<br>August, 1984 (as United Brands)|successors=[[Chiquita Brands International]]}}
| | The '''United Fruit Company''' was a [[United States of America|Statesian]] corporation responsible for [[neocolonialism]] in Central America. It had close connections to U.S. Secretary of State [[John Foster Dulles]], [[CIA]] directors [[Walter Bedell Smith]] and [[Allen Dulles]], President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and various members of [[United States Congress|Congress]] and the [[United States Department of State|State Department]].<ref name=":12">{{Citation|author=William Blum|year=2003|title=Killing Hope|chapter=Guatemala 1953-1954: While the world watched|page=74–80|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedfo2kzml5sodng4rtlybjdvertim3nybowazzlo6rztq6khixbv4?filename=William%20Blum%20-%20Killing%20Hope_%20US%20Military%20and%20CIA%20Interventions%20Since%20World%20War%20II-Zed%20Books%20Ltd%20%282003%29.pdf|city=London|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=1842773682}}</ref> |
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| The '''United Fruit Company''', later the '''United Brands Company''', was a [[United States of America|Statesian]] corporation responsible for [[neocolonialism]] in Central America. It had close connections to U.S. Secretary of State [[John Foster Dulles]], [[CIA]] directors [[Walter Bedell Smith]] and [[Allen Dulles]], President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and various members of [[United States Congress|Congress]] and the [[United States Department of State|State Department]].<ref name=":12">{{Citation|author=William Blum|year=2003|title=Killing Hope|chapter=Guatemala 1953-1954: While the world watched|page=74–80|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacedfo2kzml5sodng4rtlybjdvertim3nybowazzlo6rztq6khixbv4?filename=William%20Blum%20-%20Killing%20Hope_%20US%20Military%20and%20CIA%20Interventions%20Since%20World%20War%20II-Zed%20Books%20Ltd%20%282003%29.pdf|city=London|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=1842773682}}</ref> | |
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