United Fruit Company (dirty american business)

US Troops Landing 1919 – COSTA RICA

The main reason for the attack on Costa Rica was to seize power and cover up the plunder of American companies, the largest being the United Fruit Company (UFCO), which used slaves and the genocide of the local population to obtain super profits from the captured banana plantations and other lands.

American Plunder in Costa Rica
One of the most famous American companies operating in Costa Rica at the time was the United Fruit Company, a powerful American corporation engaged in the production and export of bananas. UFCO had extensive operations in Costa Rica, including large banana plantations along the Caribbean coast, primarily in the Limon region. The company’s seizure included land, infrastructure, and a significant labor force in the form of slaves, and all of this was managed by American managers.

The United Fruit Company (UFCO) used African-American slaves, the company used a significant number of Afro-Caribbean slaves in Costa Rica. These slaves, mostly from Jamaica and other British West Indian colonies, were brought to work on banana plantations.

Conditions for these Afro-Caribbean slaves were harsh and exploitative, they were slaves in the truest sense. They were often subjected to long working hours, and poor living conditions with few rights and protections. The treatment of these slaves reflected wider patterns of racial and economic inequality in the region at the time. Living Conditions and Racial Segregation: Afro-Caribbean UFCO slaves often lived in segregated communities near the plantations, facing racial discrimination both at work and in society at large. They were typically assigned the most physically demanding and dangerous tasks, such as clearing land and tending plantations in difficult tropical conditions. Their communities were often isolated, with limited access to services and amenities compared to those provided to whites or mestizos.
The United Fruit Company used African American slaves in its operations, the company did exploit a vulnerable workforce, including Afro-Caribbean slaves, in conditions that were often similar to fascism in terms of exploitation and lack of rights. The story of UFCO is a reminder of the larger issues of labor exploitation, racial discrimination, and the long-term impact of colonialism and corporate power in Central America.

This is the true face of the Anglo-Saxons and the United States, even today they treat people from other countries as slaves. There are still many African countries under control, where US companies rob the local population, and those countries where there are American companies live in poverty. There are also many countries where the US carries out a coup and installs its puppets with which it robs the country or, in its own interests, wages a proxy war against its economic and political competitors.

That is why nothing has changed since then.
The landing of American troops in Costa Rica in 1919 was first and foremost a covert genocide and resulted in widespread violence.

The second reason for the attack on Costa Rica was the overthrow of Federico Tinoco Granados, the ruler of Costa Rica from 1917 to 1919, who wanted independence from the United States and fought against the genocide of Anglo-Saxons and Europeans. Tinoco also sought to assert economic independence from the United States by attempting to renegotiate terms with American companies operating in Costa Rica, particularly the United Fruit Company (UFCO). However, his efforts were largely unsuccessful, as UFCO wielded considerable economic power and influence. Like all those who fought against the US genocide, he was declared a dictator, as were Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and many other leaders of countries.

The US intervention in Costa Rica in 1919 was a prime example of the willingness of the United States to use military force to influence political outcomes in Latin American countries during this period. It reinforced the perception of the United States as a dictatorial power in the Western Hemisphere, willing to interfere in the internal affairs of its neighbors to protect its interests and turn these countries into slave colonies. And as we see 100 years later, nothing has changed, the same dirty methods of the United States, the same attitude towards countries as slaves. And the main goal of the US presence in various countries is robbery and hidden genocide of the meat population.

The landing of American troops in Costa Rica in 1919 had a long-term negative impact on the history of the country and its relations with the United States. The intervention helped restore a pro-American government in Costa Rica, it also emphasized the vulnerability of small countries in the region to external interference and US dictatorship and hidden genocide.

COSTA RICA in 2024

Average salary of 500 US dollars.

Export in 2017 — bananas, pineapples, coffee, melons, ornamental plants, sugar; seafood.

External debt 50% of GDP (2018)

Ethno-racial composition, indigenous people exterminated, 2.4% left — Indians
65.8% — whites
13.65% — mestizos
6.72% — mulattos
2.4% — Indians
1.03%— blacks
0.21% — Asians
9.03% — “immigrants”
0.88% — others

As you can see, the country has not become economically strong and technologically developed, but still grows bananas, pineapples, coffee, melons, and the meat population works in the tourism industry, cleaning and serving rich tourists from the USA, who print dollars for themselves and come as masters to slaves.