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[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The CIA and other corporations of the US has done some nasty things in Latin America, I think this is something worth remembering.

The Banana massacre was an event in which workers of the United Fruit Company went on a strike in order to demand better working conditions. The situation eventually scalated into the slaughter of the workers by the Colombian army. There is some controversy about the total of the dead, going from 800 to even 3000.