Guatemala (Arbenz overthrow) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Kennedy assassination 1

  Persia 1

  Vietnam 1

  Ciénaga (Colombia) 1, 2, 3

  cigarette smoking 1

  Cincinnati 1, 2

  civil rights movement 1, 2

  Clements, John (PR man) 1

  Cleveland, Grover, president USA 1, 2

  Clinton, Bill, president USA 1

  Coca-Cola 1, 2, 3

  cocaine production 1

  coffee production 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cold War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Collins Company (machete makers) 1

  Colombia 1

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  massacre of farm workers 1, 2, 3

  Columbus, Christopher 1

  Communism 1, 2, 3

  Colombia 1

  Eastern Europe 1

  Greece 1

  Guatemala 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Nicaragua 1, 2

  Persia 1

  USA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Conquest of the Tropics: The Story of … the United Fruit Company 1

  Conrad, Joseph 1

  Coolidge, Calvin, president USA 1

  Cooper Union 1

  copyright 1, 2

  Corliss, George H (engineer) 1, 2

  Coronel, Erasmo (engineer) 1

  corporations see multi-national corporations

  Costa Rica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  banana trade war 1

  border disputes with Panama 1

  boycotts OAS conference 1

  canal plan 1

  coup (1917) 1, 2

  finances 1, 2

  flag 1, 2

  railways 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  under Figueres 1, 2

  cotton production 1

  Crowther, Samuel 1

  cruises (banana boats) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Cuba 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  missile crisis 1, 2, 3

  under Castro 1, 2, 3

  USA invasion (1961) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  ‘Cuban reds’ (banana variety) 1

  Cubans’ role in Watergate 1

  Death of a Salesman 1

  death squads, Guatemala 1, 2

  deaths (accident/disease) 1, 2, 3

  see also killings; lynchings; massacres

  Del Monte 1

  Depression 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Dien Bien Phu 1

  diet 1

  diseases (human) 1, 2, 3

  bananas see bananas/diseases

  dock workers 1, 2, 3

  Dole Corporation 1, 2

  Dominican Republic 1, 2, 3, 4

  Donovan 1, 2

  Drake, Sir Francis 1, 2

  Drew, Daniel 1, 2

  Dulles, Allen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cuban invasion 1

  Guatemalan coup 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dulles, John Foster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  and United Fruit Company 1, 2, 3

  Guatemalan coup 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  earthquakes 1, 2

  East Germany 1

  Eastman, George 1

  Ecuador 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Edison, Thomas 1, 2

  Egypt 1

  Eisenhower, Dwight D, president USA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  anti-trust offensives 1

  Eisenhower, Milton 1

  ‘El Pulpo’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  El Salvador 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Enron 1

  Esquire magazine 1

  Estrada Cabrera, General Manuel see Cabrera

  Europe trade war with USA 1, 2

  Europe, eastern 1

  Exodus (boat) 1

  ‘Fair Trade’ bananas 1, 2, 3

  Falklands war 1

  farm workers 1, 2

  see also workers/plantations

  Farquahar, Percival (United Fruit employee) 1

  Fernández, Cristina Castro 1, 2, 3

  fertilisers 1, 2

  Figueres, José ‘Pepe’, leader Costa Rica 1, 2, 3

  Fiji (banana disease) 1

  First World War 1

  Fisk, James 1

  Florida 1

  food USA 1

  ‘Football War’ 1

  Ford Motor Company 1, 2

  ‘Fourteen families’ El Salvador 1, 2

  France 1, 2

  Frank, Gustav (banana grower) 1

  free trade 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Freud, Sigmund 1

  Friedman, Milton 1

  fruits and health 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  fungicides 1, 2, 3, 4

  Fyffes 1, 2, 3

  Gang’s All Here, The 1

  García Márquez see Márquez

  Gates, Bill 1

  Gaudet, William 1, 2

  Geneen, Howard (ITT) 1

  genetic modification 1

  Germany 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  globalisation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  see also multi-national corporations

  ‘going bananas’ 1, 2

  gold rush 1, 2, 3

  gold speculation 1

  Gold Standard 1

  Gould, Jay 1, 2

  Grant, Ulysses S, president USA 1

  Great Centennial Exhibition USA 1, 2

  Great Depression 1, 2, 3, 4

  Great White Fleet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  passengers 1, 2, 3, 4

  Greece 1

  Green Pope, The 1, 2

  Grenada 1, 2

  ‘Gros Michel’ (banana variety) 1

  guano industry 1

  Guardia, General Tomás, president Costa Rica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Guatemala 1, 2, 3 4, 5

  and United Fruit Company 1, 2, 3, 4

  and USA 1, 2

  see also Guatemala/coup (1954)

  army atrocities 1, 2

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  church 1

  Coca-Cola bottling 1

  coffee production 1, 2, 3

  communism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  coup (1898) 1

  coup (1954) Arbenz overthrow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  death squads 1, 2, 3

  ladinos 1, 2, 3, 4

  land ownership 1, 2, 3

  Mayan people or ethnic groups 1, 2

  Mayan remains 1

  railways 1, 2, 3, 4

  revolt (1920 ) 1

  war with Honduras (1906 ) 1

  Guevara, Ernesto ‘Che’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Guevara, Hilda 1

  Haiti 1

  Harvard Business School 1

  Havana 1, 2

  Hawaii 1

  health and bananas 1, 2, 3, 4

  Henry, O 1, 2, 3

  Hispaniola 1

  Hollywood 1

  Honduras 1, 2, 3

  and USA 1, 2, 3

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  corruption 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  coup (1907) 1

  coup (1911) 1

  finances 1, 2, 3, 4

  in fiction 1

  Knox Plan 1, 2

  railways 1, 2, 3

  war with El Salvador (1969) 1

  war with Guatemala (1906 ) 1

  war with Nicaragua (1907) 1

  Hornet (yacht) 1

  hospitals, 1, 2

  Howells, William Dean 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hunt, E Howard (CIA agent) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cuban invasion 1

  Guatemalan coup (Arbenz overthrow) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Kennedy assassination 1

  Watergate scandal 1, 2

  hurricanes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Iceland banana growing 1

  India 1

  Indians, American 1, 2

  InterContinental Hotel, Managua 1

  International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (ITT) 1, 2

  Iran 1, 2, 3

  Iraq 1, 2

  irrigation 1, 2

  Israel 1, 2, 3, 4

  Italian workers 1, 2, 3, 4

  Jamaica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  ‘Jamaica Yellows’ 1

  Jamaican workers 1

  canal building 1, 2, 3

  jungle clearance 1

  plantation workers 1, 2

  railway building 1, 2

  Japan 1

  Jefferson Coolidge dynasty 1

  Jefferson Coolidge, chairman UFC 1

  Jews see anti-Semitism

  journalists see press

  Journey to Banana Land 1, 2

  jungle clearance 1, 2

  Keith, Henry (railway builder) 1, 2, 3

  Keith, Minor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  cartel with Andrew Preston 1

  Costa Rica overseas debts 1, 2

  coup Honduras (1911) 1

  elimination of rivals 1

  finances 1

  in fiction 1

  marriage 1

  railways 1, 2

  Costa Rica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cuba 1

  El Salvador 1

  Guatemala 1, 2, 3

  Honduras 1

  relations with Theodore Roosevelt 1

  relations with Sam Zemurray 1

  shipping 1

  United Fruit Company foundation 1

  workforce recruitment 1

  Kellogg Peace Pact 1

  Kellogg, Frank, US secretary of state 1, 2

  Kennedy, John F, president USA 1, 2

  kibbutz 1

  killings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  lynchings 1, 2

  Knox Plan 1, 2

  Knox, Philander, US secretary of state 1, 2

  Koch, Robert 1

  labour see workers

  labour unions 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ladino people Guatemala 1, 2

  ‘Lady Finger’ (banana variety) 1

  Lansing, Robert, US secretary of state 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lansky, Meyer 1

  Latin American Report 1

  Lay, Kenneth, Enron 1

  League of Nations 1, 2, 3

  Lebanese workers 1

  Lesseps, Ferdinand de 1, 2, 3

  lettuce growing 1

  Liliolukani, Queen 1

  Limón Number One (locomotive) 1

  Limón province, Costa Rica 1, 2

  Line-Wolf ammonia compressor 1

  lobbying 1, 2, 3, 4

  Locke, John 1

  Lodge reservations 1

  Lodge, Henry Cabot 1, 2, 3, 4

  logo copyright 1

  Long, Huey, governor Louisiana 1

  Los Angeles 1

  Lowell family Boston 1

  lynchings 1, 2

  machetes 1

  ‘Macondo’ 1, 2

  malaria 1, 2

  Managua (Nicaragua) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  market crashes 1, 2

  market protection see cartels; free trade; trusts

  ‘market state’ 1

  Márquez, Gabriel García 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Marshall Plan 1

  Marshall, General George 1

  massacres (plantation workers) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Matthews, Herbert (journalist) 1

  Mayan people Guatemala 1, 2, 3

  Mayan ruins 1, 2, 3

  McCann, Thomas (PR man) 1, 2, 3

  McCarthy, Senator Joseph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  McCormick, Cyrus (inventor) 1

  McKinley, William, president USA 1, 2

  McNamara, Robert 1

  media see press; radio broadcasts

  Meiggs family 1

  Meiggs, Henry ‘Don Enrique’ (railway builder) 1, 2

  ‘Mellow Yellow’ 1, 2

  Mexican workers 1

  Mexico 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Middle America Information Bureau 1

  Miller, Arthur 1

  Miranda, Carmen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Miskito Indians 1

  Mississipi flood (1927) 1

  Mobile (US port) 1

  molasses 1

  Molony, Guy ‘Machine-gun’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  monetarism 1

  monoculture 1

  monopolies see trusts

  Monroe Doctrine 1, 2

  Moors Cabot, John 1

  Morgan, J.P. (bankers) 1, 2, 3

  Mosquito Coast 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  multi-national corporations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  corporate responsibility 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  see also philanthropy

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel 1

  National Association for the Advancement of Coloured Peoples 1

  Negroponte, John 1, 2

  Neruda, Pablo 1

  New Deal 1, 2

  New Orleans 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  banana trading 1, 2

  Nicaragua 1

  and USA 1, 2, 3, 4

  banana plantations 1, 2

  civil war (1970s) 1, 2

  earthquakes 1, 2

  war with Honduras (1907) 1

  Nicaraguan Earthquake Emergency Drive 1

  Nico 1

  Nixon, Richard, president USA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Watergate 1, 2, 3

  Noboa (banana company) 1

  Noriega, General Humberto 1

  North, Colonel Oliver 1

  Nostromo 1

  oil industry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  see also OPEC

  Onassis, Aristotle 1

  One Hundred Years of Solitude 1, 2, 3

  OPEC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Organisation of American States 1, 2

  Oswald, Lee Harvey 1

  Oxford English Dictionary 1, 2

  Padre Island (Texas) 1

  palm oil production 1

  Panama 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  and United Fruit Company 1, 2, 3

  banana plantations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  railways 1

  Panama Canal

  de Lesseps canal 1, 2

  pre de Lesseps plans 1, 2

  USA canal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Panama disease 1, 2, 3, 4

  Peabody family, Boston 1

  Peabody Gardner, chairman United Fruit Company 1

  Persia 1

  Peru 1, 2

  pesticides 1, 2

  Peurifoy, Jack 1, 2, 3

  philanthropy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  see also multi-national corporations/corporate responsibility

  Piedmont 1

  Pinochet, General Augusto 1, 2, 3

  plantations see bananas/plantations

  workers see workers/plantations

  postage stamps, commemorative 1

  press 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  and United Fruit Company 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  manipulation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Preston (Cuba) 1

  Preston, Andrew 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  cartel and anti-trust activities 1, 2

  price fixing 1, 2, 3, 4

  see also cartels

  propaganda see press manipulation; public relations

  protectionism see cartels; trusts

  public relations 1, 2, 3

  see also United Fruit Company/public relations

  Puerto Barrios (Guatemala) 1, 2, 3

  Puerto Cabezas (Nicaragua) 1, 2, 3

  Puerto Castilla (Honduras) 1, 2, 3

  Puerto Cortés (Honduras) 1, 2

  Puerto Rico 1

  Quiriguá (Guatemala) 1,2,3

  racism 1, 2, 3, 4

  ‘Radio Bound for Banana Land’ 1

  radio broadcasts 1, 2, 3, 4

  railways

  Central America link up 1

  Chile 1

  construction workers see workers/railway building

  Costa Rica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Cuba 1, 2, 3

  El Salvador 1

  Guatemala 1, 2, 3, 4

  Honduras 1, 2, 3

  Panama 1

  Peru 1

  United Fruit Company 1, 2, 3, 4

  USA 1, 2

  Rainforest Alliance 1

  Reagan, Ronald, president USA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Red Cross 1

  ‘Red Macabu’ (banana variety) 1, 2

  ‘reefers’ 1

  refrigeration technology 1, 2

  Reventazón river (Costa Rica) 1

  Ritz-Carlton hotel, Boston 1

  ‘robber barons’ 7, 1

  Romance and Rise of the American Tropics, The 1

  Romero, Oscar, archbishop San Salvador 1, 2

  Roosevelt, Franklin D, president USA 1, 2, 3, 4

  Roosevelt, Kermit ‘Kim’ 1, 2

  Roosevelt, Theodore, president USA 1, 2, 3, 4

  ‘Rough Riders’ (Cuban war) 1

  Salem (Massachusetts) 1

  San José (Costa Rica) 1, 2

  San Salvador 1

  Santa Marta (Colombia) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Santo Domingo 1

  sarsa trade 1

  Second World War 1, 2, 3

  Selma (Alabama) 1, 2

  Señorita Chiquita Banana 1

  Shah of Persia/Iran 1, 2, 3

  Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) 1

  Shield of Achilles, The 1

  ships see banana boats

  sigatoka (banana disease) 1, 2, 3, 4

  slavery 1

  smallholders 1, 2

  snakes 1

  social democracy 1, 2, 3, 4

  social welfare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  see also philanthropy

  Somoza family, Nicaragua 1, 2, 3, 4

  Somoza, Anastasio, president Nicaragua 1, 2, 3, 4

  South Pacific (musical) 1

  Soviet Union 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Spain 1, 2

  Spanish workers 1

  Spellman, Cardinal Francis 1

  St Kitts 1

  Stalin 1, 2, 3

  stamps, commemorative 1

  Standard Fruit Company 1, 2, 3, 4

  Standard Oil 1

  Starbucks 1

  Statue of Liberty 1

  stevedores 1, 2, 3

  stock market crashes 1, 2

  strikes

  Colombia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Costa Rica 1

  Guatemala 1, 2

  Panama 1

  sugar cane production 1, 2, 3, 4

  Sussex University 1

  Syrian workers 1

  Tacoma, USS 1, 2, 3

  Taft, William, president USA 1, 2, 3

  Tangipahoa (USA) 1

  Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Tela (Honduras) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  telegraph, use of 1

  Textron 1

  Thatcher, Margaret 1, 2

  The Craft of Intelligence 1

  Third World 1, 2

  Thompson, George Maker (fictional character) 1

  Tinoco, General Federico, dictator Costa Rica 1, 2

  Tiquisate plantation (Guatemala) 1, 2, 3

  Torrijos, General Omar, Panama 1, 2, 3, 4

  tourism 1

  trade monopolies see cartels; trusts

  trade unions 1, 2, 3, 4

  trade wars 1, 2, 3

  Trautwine, John C (railway builder) 1

  Trujillo (Honduras) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Truman, Harry, president USA 1, 2

  trusts 1, 2, 3

  anti-trust offensives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  UFC evasions 1, 2

  UFC Guatemalan interests 1, 2, 3

  UFC railway interests 1

  Tulane University, New Orleans 1

  turtle trade 1, 2

  U-boats (German) 1

  Ubico, General Jorge, dictator Guatemala 1, 2, 3

  Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent 1

  United Brands 1, 2 later Chiquita

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21