No they were found liable in a civil court under a jurisdiction that was not in the country where it happened and was not under the laws in that country. During the 1920s such violence was all over the place, there were armed thugs hired by unionistas and terrible companies as law and order BROKE DOWN in the US over it. Assassinations were not common but they did happen though I've lost my references on those, my family well mostly ancestors now were connected to some of that in Appalachia and Kentucky and it was brutal.
"In a shocking turn of events, popular youtube influencer Wendigoon was found dead after ingesting over two tons of bananas, a fruit he openly admitted to being allergic to only 72 hours earlier"
🎶"Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong You're enchained by your own sorrow In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow How I hate to see you like this There is no way you can deny it I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet Chiquitita, tell me the truth I'm a shoulder you can cry on Your best friend, I'm the one you must rely on" 🎶
How unfortunate that Wendigoon was found stuck in a field of bananas, 6 of them stuffed up his mouth, lips swollen. Really strange that someone with a Banana allergy would be just so enthusiastic about bananas all of a sudden, but he will be missed. 😞😞
As the son of a Guatemalan immigrant who fled the country from its civil war in the 80s, it gives me great pleasure knowing that individuals such as Wendigoon are able to take the time and create inciteful works of information and magnify it to audiences worldwide. Thank you for your unbiased approach to the truth and may more people be made aware of the atrocities that took place in that country. To this day, thousands of innocent indigenous families live there lives without knowing the whereabouts of their relatives that were taken from the government. May their pain be felt and heard to more easily pave the way towards restitution.
Damm that's though, i am from Costa Rica and while i don't have anu familiar relates to the bananeras I've reas some books about it and it is genuinely heart crushing and infuriating how every media try to cover it (at least in Costa Rica, but i assume it was like this in all of Latam, and it's also kind of sad that at the end of the day things are practically the same way
@@camaleonhippie7567 I'm Mexican american. So of course Mexico never had guerrillas apart from the zapatistas but that was a pretty brief incident. As you know Mexico and the united states were allies in the cold war
This "banana wars" was pretty one of the most immoral actions in US history, similar to the "pacification of the phillipinese" no one talks about. a war purely fought for the benefit of oligarchs, which especially pre WW2 the US was a oligarchs based system where even a president or two was a oligarch.
I can't believe Wendigoon ate 150 bananas despite being allergic to bananas and then shot himself and then threw himself off a five story building. Such a tragic accident.
Who knew his entire crew would all die of accidents within a week of each other? I am sure the new crew and their new video "Chiquita Fruit Company, a History of Progress" will be a real banger.
it happens.. a clinton aide beat himself up, then with broken bones, he managed to hang himself, and used telekinesis to float a shtgun and used his psychic powers to shoot himself in the chest.. he just really really wanted to d!e, no conspiracy there and a clear case of suicidi..
@@RyanONeal-zd6zu This comment is new and original, you are also so smart and funny. Keep up the good work there Officer 'O Neal of the Comment Police.
This literally made me tear up, I'm from Costa Rica and my grandpa worked as a railroad operator for the united fruit company, the conditions were horrible and I've been hearing horror stories about that time for as long as I can remember, it's so surreal to hear my favorite youtuber talk about this dark part of our history that always gets ignored, thank you, i wish my grandpa were here to see this
@@KenzoDNogueraGomez me pasa igual, mejor ni seguí leyendo los comentarios porque me sienta mal... pero igual agradezco mucho que este video exista, así las historias de nuestros abuelos llegan a más gente
Being from Colombia I had to do a double take when I saw the video posted, "la masacre de las bananeras" as we call it here is a story that's ingrained in our heads since childhood.
@@20chocsaday not the only example of eufacilitating massacres in latin america. Pinochet is a very famous example and it wasnt a hird party but the united states goverment itself
La vieja esa diciendo “la masacre de las bananeras es un mito” para luego condenar a García Márquez. ¡Dios nos salve de las bodegas de Musk! Si no fue con Petro nunca con la Vicky esa
Gosh, I can't believe Wendigoon is going to accidentally trip out a 28th floor window onto 37.5 bullets, and before strangling himself with a garotte wire, and only the day before he was going to post this video. Stay safe out there whistleblowers.
That is how the whole "empire" thing works Most copy Rome, who bring "civilization" to "barbarians" (a slur for foregeiners at the time). This and all the benefit of exploiting other countries is how the "boomer" generation surge. Basicly, boomera where the same as british/spanish citicens during the colonial times of 1700. Gaining all the benefit so why question it? The only one who did where hippies, especially against the invation like Vietnam, yet this people where socially ostracized and beaten by police forces withouth repercution.
At this point, I'd be more surprised to hear about a small country in the global south that wasn't completely destroyed by western capitalists for short term gains
i know this one! i’m a born and raised colombian - along coastal towns, village folk will still insist that the death count that day in ciénaga was well over 2,000, and apparently, the sea ran red. gruesome stuff!
La masacre de las bananeras, el pedazo de historia de Colombia al que ni se sabe cuantas muertes hubo por la corrupcion de esa empresa. Hasta Gabriel Garcia Marquez lo menciono en el libro mas famoso de el, Cien Años de Soledad....
@@akkuma8689 Justo pensé en eso, estoy leyéndolo y cuando llegue a esa parte, fue como "Esto paso? pues si, y nadie habla de eso?." Es terrorífico todo lo de la empresa bananera.
And they tried to gaslight Colombians into thinking it never happened 😭 had to write an essay in school about whether we thought it did in fact happen or not!!!
@@Ivanna-rr6vh They try to gaslight us Americans too. They tell us 9/11 and all sorts of other things like JFK were just coincidences but really they were in on it
The part about slipping on bananas, it was actually such a huge problem back then, not because people were slipping on them left and right, but because con artists were doing it on purpose and getting paid by the city every time lol
If you're wondering how so many people were dying on banana plantations: falling. I visited Guatemala 3 weeks ago and the banana farms are built on cliffs. And they plant trees right up to the edge basically. There’s a small fence to maybe keep you in, but it's not really gonna stop you. The hospitals regularly get people coming in with broken bones or worse because they fell off their farm.
I imagine mosquito-borne illnesses would be another leading cause of death? As well as spider bites, as those venomous spidery monstrosities are known to get into boxes of bananas!
@@avpman150 Not really. The entire country is mountains and jungles, usually both simultaneously. Guatemala City is built at the base of 5 volcanoes. The fertile is absolutely JUICED because of the volcanism, but flat land is rare, so terrace farming is just what you gotta do.
I'm from Colombia and man I love how you cover such a topic. We learn pretty early in the history of our country that the USA has screwed us on more than one occasion, La guerra de las bananeras, the military takeover of panama while we were in a civil war. It really means a lot for us that people from other countries talk about this.
As an American, the USA has been screwing the entire continents of Central & South America since the day it was born. So sorry you gotta deal with the brutality of our government. Cuidaté
It's the "LINEN FRENCH TERRY RESORT SHIRT" It's a "resort shirt" which is fitting for a story about Central America. In fact, maybe more appropriate than a Hawaiian shirt since Central America has resorts but no Hawaii
personally, as a Colombian, I think it speaks volumes about the American education system and how it prioritizes pushing propaganda over teaching real US history
@@sou.1083That's not unique to America, essentially every country does this. Its extremely disgusting to me that this is common behavior in America especially considering how much our country preaches the ideals of freedom, truth, justice, and liberty.
And the Dole fruit company was instrumental in overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy and installing their own government which lead to Hawaii becoming a state against their will.
It's so crazy that wendigoon entered a banana eating contest in a now deleted video before falling backwards off his chair hitting his head on a spike after 3 consecutive loud pop noises were heard and then the wind pushed him into a meat grinder and his remains weren't able to be recovered after he ate 600 bananas the day before while he was drunk
@@Emilianoo8 Oh sweet summer child... The CIA has overthrown most of these counties and literally called shit this ridiculous an "unfortunate accident" or "robbery gone wrong" or their favorite "He was game ending himself" In fact my favorite is a member of the chemical biological radiological nuclear CBRN talked about quitting, was having drinks with the then head of the CIA and shortly after made a running jump out of a window with all evidence showing he was not just pushed but literally thrown off the building Seriously, you are a danger to yourself and literally the entire world if you're stupid enough to have a shred of trust towards any US government official or their blatant lies
A colombian follower here, thanks for sharing one of the darkest episodes of my country so more people around the world can see what we have been through and despite everything, we continued fighting for this beatiful country and his beautiful people. Saludos y abrazos!!!
I live in the southern us and in highschool, a teacher of mine taught us about the Chiquita banana geopolitical shit and all of that, it blew our minds. Like you said, it needs to have light brought to it so it never happens again.
as someone who is guatemalan-colombian thank you so much for shedding light on this, it’s a really important and disturbing part of history that is not talked about as much as it should be, so it does mean a lot seeing someone whose content i love and who has a large audience talking about this ❤
Hi, I'm from Guatemala and I honestly thank you so much for talking about this. You have no idea how much this impacted our country, it was so bad that we still suffer the consequences from it today. One of our earliest chances of getting a better country was absolutely destroyed by this (and other issues like genocide, but that's another story mildly related to this one)
And the true insult Is that the same country that caused all this, has the gall to criticize and denounce the people of El Salvador for supporting Bukele. As if they know what's best for Central America
And yet, the US clearly feels no remorse for this atrocity because we continue to destabilize any country we deem “a threat” (e.g., not letting the US exploit valuable resources). I wish we would learn.
I'm from Guatemala as well and when I learned this it just broke my heart deeply, it's so depressing knowing that the greed of some individuals destroyed the hope of an entire country (countries if we are being honest).
Fun Fact: A similar situation to a Banana Republic almost happened in United States territory. You might've heard about the town of Hershey. Which is entirely owned and founded by chocolate conglomerate, Henry Hershey. It was a completely owned company town where workers sleep, eat, socialize and work entirely inside the town. Hershey basically had an entire small state all to himself. He imposed his own company policies as laws, his own minimum wage, he even had all the businesses in town privately owned by him from small diners to movie theaters. Eventually, the workers decided to strike because of the comparatively low minimum wage they have in comparison to other workers who worked for other companies. Hershey befuddled, decided to do nothing for days on end which halted chocolate production completely. This (which is either intentional or insane coincidence) sparked outrage amongst the local dairy farmers that Hershey buys his milk from. So much so that they broke the strike themselves by breaking into the locked up factory and beating up the striking workers for getting between them and that sweet Hershey paycheck. A wealthy conglomerate owning 100% of everything on a piece of land with practically infinite power to do his bidding on it. Thankfully "Chocolate Republic" never caught on because there was only one Hershey town whereas there were many south american republics that were turned into glorified giant banana farms
According to a former coworker who was higher up at Chiquita, companies like this have ransom budgets for when employees get kidnapped in Central America. Usually it’s surprisingly rote, the kidnapping is just the employee goes up to the wrong person holding their name at the airport. Couple hours in a van or dropped off at a holding site, company is contacted and ransom paid, employee is released.
The Intel computer company hires PMCs to protect it's workers who live in the United States that have to go over the border to their job sites in Mexico. More larger companies are doing this now because of a number of incidents in the 90s and early 2000s where the ransom was paid and they killed the employee anyway.
thank you,,, i grew up having some idea of this as a kid but felt crazy given how much chiquita banana is everywhere and no one else seemed to know or care
The US military was used many times in what are known as the Banana Wars. US Marines were used as the strong arm for fruit and sugar companies. Smedley Butler wrote a book about it: War is a Racket.
I would love if because of this video, wendigoon had to hire one of those bodyguards that takes a bite of every piece of food you’re offered to check for poison. But instead of poison, they just have to check if it tastes like bananas.
What's crazy about this is that it goes so much further and deeper than what you were able to fit into this video with your super busy schedule. The fact that the CIA has spent so much effort and time, even now, in meddling in South American politics is something that should be recognised more. I'm glad you did this. As an aside absolutely wild that the Stalker tour has plushies for sale when they haven't even fulfilled their Kickstarter plushie rewards.
my parents were born in central america (guatemala/ nicaragua) this company created one of the longest lasting civil wars in human history in Guatemala…my dad grew up when the fighting was really bad. this is why i value my freedom.
@@plagueday5395No yeah, people say it’s Chinese spyware. Look it up legend. Plus I mean. Something’s gotta be a little wrong to have such cheap prices for things lol.
You need to keep in mind that when Árbenz forcibly purchased the land he did from Chiquita, he paid them the price Chiquita claimed the land was valued at when they paid property taxes the prior year. He litterally paid them what they said it was worth. However, to everyone's complete utter shock, I'm sure, they were lying.
Remember that Arbenz did not give it to the actual people, they didn't give property rights for the land, and most of those lands today are owned by the families of the people in the Arbenz govt that kept them for themselves. Arbenz also killed a lot of students that opposed the communist policies (Fernando Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg were the main assasins commanded to torture and kill civilians that opposed the regime). A lot of people in Guatemala praise Arbenz because history classes are basically state-sponsored adoctrination that paint him as a hero, where in reality , he was like any other communist leader around the world. His wife was the extremist one that convinced him to do a lot of bad things. The UFCo sucked, but the revolution that took out Arbenz was legit. When Castillo Armas assumed power, he had the largest support ever, there's a lot of news and video from the time that show the support to remove Arbenz was real, the UFCo and the US got involved at the end.
@@deyoloco3110 a lot of CIA propaganda. The reason that people remember him favorably is because instead of having a full-blown Civil War he chose to resign peacefully. Most of the killings in Guatemala happened after he resigned, which is something you’re kinda leaving out probably because you’re on the other political side of the spectrum
@@rootin222 not leaving them out. If you read unbiased history, you will see that after the 1944 revolution, the elections were rigged and there is documentation that Juan Jose Arevalo promised the presidency to Arana, and Arbenz sent people to kill Arana. And after that he was the only popular candidate. He started to do really bad things with socialist policies that still affect Guatemalans today. This is not CIA propaganda. The CIA propaganda came at the end of the 1954 coup. But if you look up the assassinations done by Arbenz, he focused primarily on university students that were against communism. After killing and torturing them, he exiled another bunch of them, along with soldiers that were not loyal. Again, not propaganda, actual history. The thing is that Guatemala history is filled with biased information. A lot of the massacres during the war were also done by the guerrillas to frame the army, but they don't tell you that in the indoctrination books.
Thank you for this, my mom was a protester in Guatemala fighting for the rights of the indigenous people. She had to flee the country for it even while being non violent. While I’ll always understand the privilege it is to be in the states, the opportunities and life i live here wouldn’t be possible over there, i can’t help but feel contempt for how it helped further rip Guatemala apart. My mom and both my countries gave me a deep appreciation for those who lose their voice when governments stop working for the people. I think the US and Guatemala are beautiful countries with good, hard working people. But sadly Chiquita and the US really did unspeakable things to Guatemala.
@@MeanBeanComedy I would say no, we’ve never had a chance. Right now it’s a broken country (beautiful country, but broken). We’ve always been plagued with corruption and some other big country wanting to control us for one reason or another. With covid it was vaccines by the Russians, and the US has recently had its hand in government affairs. A family member of mine works in tech and has worked with the US government in Guatemalan digital infrastructure. How far that goes i don’t know, i don’t think they do either. Idk if you were looking for a real answer, but ya the people are fairly aware that the situation has never been good. We just take it as it comes. :/
I’m so glad you covered this. This was actually the first time I ever heard about a private company doing messed up stuff like this. Obviously commonly known now that companies are this messed up, but 10 year old me was blown away by the fact that companies have the ability to hire private armies to completely decimate a population for something as trivial like bananas.
Keep in mind, it's not something as 'trivial as bananas'. It's literally billions of dollars. Bananas are just the product. No one should be surprised.
I suddenly developed an almost identical allergy like 6 years ago. From my research/understanding, it's called an Oral Allergy Reaction (OAR) due to bananas sharing a pollen protein with ragweed (which I've been allergic to for years). However, if I eat things like banana bread or pudding, completely fine.
I saw this in my notifications at work and said "Oh sweet Wendigoon finally made a video about Chiquita Banana and how they funded private death squads to ensure efficient farming operations". I then realized by my coworker's face that was not common knowledge and not everyone had a cool high school history teacher.
They were probably just shocked to realize their coworker is a fucking skinwalker. Who the hell uses "ensure" in casual conversation? That's not how humans talk.
I was so sad to hear Wendigoon road the sewer slide by eating a banana, hacking himself into pieces with a chainsaw, and mailing himself in nicely wrapped packages to all his friends and family.
He mailed his stomach completely intact filled with nearly a 100 whole bananas. Not peeled, not eaten. Just 100 swallowed bananas. Done completely voluntarily and of his own free will.
I remember reading about this issue about 15 years ago and it really disillusioned me about American corporations. It's a very eye opening topic and i am glad you are highlighting it.
As someone who watched the Sam O Nella video on this, the intro to this video when he's like "If you saw they were sponsoring death squads, you were also probably confused" but as soon as I saw that headline I was like "Yeah sounds about right"
I've had a bit of familiarity with the Banana Republics for a while, because I like to know which companies I see in Walmart have actively killed civilians
That thing about harassing a company by taking their produce for "inspection" knowing it will go bad before they get it back? Yeah the state of Pennsylvania appears to have recently done that to an Amish farmer named Amos Miller. A lot of really shady stuff going on in that case.
As a Colombian that lived near the place this massacre went through is horrific the stories and the ambience in there, the house I sued to live was a common grave that went dismantled when the military base was constructed, and it was a nightmare house, at night u can feel people watching u, how they were walking around the house and screams and the smell of blood, it was horrible and the town still has the pain of what happened, I moved years ago but when in school I was tough about it i was soooo terrified its was so heartbreaking knowing that while I was riding bikes w my friends, having sleepovers and studying kilometers away there were graves of people and a town full of blood
i know lol always kinda blew my mind that a clothing brand, a clothing brand that makes semi-nice clothes for suburban white people, would name themselves something like that. It just seems like SUCH a bad look.
As a Colombian it isn't a surprise to learn that the Masacre de las Bananeras and other things that United Fruit Co. (and others) did were not common knowledge until last month. The US of A do have a reputation of "embellishing" the history that they teach at their schools. I'm glad that all of this is being talked about, no matter how long ago it happened.
As an American who was once in History class, everything around what our country and the fruit companies did is certainly at the very least, watered down and white washed. All I remember learning about this in school was that it was mainly the fruit companies acting badly by treating their workers poorly, and exploiting the countries economies through their monopolies on the industry and infrastructure. They conveniently don't mention the parts about the death squads and coups.
i don’t think i ever even heard about this in school, and i was in AP and IB classes💀 Edit: i vaguely remember hearing the name Eli Black in my AP Gov class
Canada teaches about all these items ;) we gotchu. I'm moving to south America (likely Argentina) from Canada cuz I am so sick of this country an the direction it's headed... Can't wait to join you...
@@1blackice1 you cant really generalize curriculum across the entire country like that. Yeah, there are standards that must be met, but states can go about it quite differently. My history classes I took in highschool didnt whitewash or pretend like we were doing anything good with the banana republics. Especially once you got to stuff like AP US history. They talked about that stuff in detail. My teacher was pretty invested in us, and she was pretty hellbent on not glossing over anything. Tho as far as the class was concerned, US history ended around 1990, and didnt really cover anything beyond. i lived in a few different states growing up, and each state was quite different in how they taught subjects or what order they taught them in. Though that was mostly visible in the k-8th grade sorta bracket, highschool was pretty similar in the order of classes taken, and which classes had to be taken. I remember when I first moved to NC from NY, 5th grade, I was totally confused because their curriculum included a lot about the outer banks and the famous lighthouses. Which of course I had heard nothing about living in new york.
I'd say it depends a lot on the school. My 8th grade history class back in the 80s covered it as the fruit companies manipulated the governments for their profits and did horrible things. They just didn't go into the full details of the horrible things.
there are 6 dots on that poster from a light source and I cant help but think there's a secret message Wendigoon is trying to convey when he moves his arms in such a way to block certain ones at certain intervals.
So my late friend was the first Chiquita banana lady. She was in her early 20s when the character was introduced in the 1940s and her role was to basically go into the studio and record these lines and songs about gross banana recipes for movie trailers, usually involving aspic of some description, to get Americans to buy the fruit. Eventually after she left to become an actress and singer, she told me she followed along with the news and strange company legacy and this whole business, and as far as I know she was still reading the news about it when she passed at 93.
Not the OP but her name was Monica Lewis and she did indeed die at 93 in 2015. She wouldve been 22 or so when she recorded those lines. Its not at all outside the realm of possibility someone watching this video knew her. Old people use the internet too
THANK YOU WENDIGOON! Chiquitas 100 year rampage on Latin America is one of the most glossed over and ignored parts of our history. Most of us never even hear about it until well after school despite them and the US being largely responsible for a lot of the conditions that we live under today. Thank you so much for covering this.
What the f are you talking about, this has nothing to do with migrants, it's about exploitive corporations, who often hire migrants and exploit labor laws@@whatwhyy
@@whatwhyyNot us, our government. Specifically our right-wing side, although the non-progressive left (because progressives actually care about other human beings and want positive change for all) is also responsible, just less heinous that the pigs who make up our Republican party.
I'm subscribed to one of the people involved with this entire mess, so seeing your title instantly reminded me of those personal talks during livestreams. Great job laying out the goofy and (mostly) macabre aspects of this saga.
Fun fact: United Fruit Company owns the local store, the school and even the brothel on the communities were they operate. Hence, they never lost a penny on the production
Wow I never expected to listen to the entirety of a 43 minute video about banana history. Wendigoon this is my first time finding your channel but I wanna say you got a really unique and special talent for talking about history in a way that makes it interesting! Great video look forward to whatever is next!
@wunba you should definitely look at his back log of videos. He does real-life history, like the Waco cult. But he also does "sci-fi/fantasy" videos, like his monument mythos and mystery flesh pit video. He talks about them in such a way that you forget it's fiction and not real life.
That's my intro to him @@autumnmolick1333. And I did think"shit that's scary. Why can't I go there?" while doing a search. Yes I pressed enter before realizing this fake AF. Been rockin wit him ever since.
Their main office is right near my house. I did work on a car for a lawyer outside of their headquarters in Dania. He was surprised I knew so much about their history, thought I might have weirded him out. He was friendly though and tipped me really well, but I think I got my feelings across pretty decently.
The photo of the president of Guatemala you put as Jacobo Arbenz in 16:58 is not him. That guy is Jorge Ubico Castañeda, the president and dictator of Guatemala from 1931-1944. And, Arbenz wasn't the founder of the Guatemalan Party of Labor or PGT in spanish as we know it here. He wasn't elected by that party, but by the Revolutionary Action Party. The PGT was only a party part of their legislative coalition in Congress. One thing he didn't mention was that there was almost a war between Guatemala and Honduras, started by a fight between UFCO and Cuyamel FCO, because they wanted more land for their plantations in the shores of the Motagua river.
for my essay to get into college I wrote about a book called "Bitter Fruit" which is a book based around the U.S sponsered coup in Guatemala that took place in 1954. It's a seriously horriffic book that takes the first hand account of someone who lived through it. I'd highly reccomend it to anyone who watched Wendi's vid and wants to learn more about this.
@@Polit_Burro If you think you're going to shock anyone with that, I don't think you will. Democrats were already pretty pissed about that back when it happened. Eric Holder is... not a good guy, to say the least.
Aww but they also steal billions of gallons of water from the US and other countries, stealing water is exponentially worse than banana related crimes cx
Fun fact , the pre Panama Disease bananas supposedly tasted like the artificial banana candy flavor (like Laffy Taffy) . They based the candy flavor off of those bananas and that’s why it doesn’t taste like the bananas we have now ! If remember correctly (no guarantees) it was called the Big Mike banana and it went mostly extinct. I say misty because there is a few online companies that grow say they grow them but I’m not paying what they are charging for them to find out lol.
fun fact, that fun catchy “tally me banana” song is written from the perspective of people enslaved in these banana plantations. if they didn’t meet quota they couldn’t leave and they were violently punished.
Working all night and dealing with highly deadly black tarantulas, both would have seemed shocking to 50's housewives and perhaps the song is meant to prick their Martini soaked and diet pill addled consciences.
Im Colombian, that the Colombian history: it still hurts (also Israel funding the same groups and Musk seeing us as cartoonish brown) A paradise in the middle of a war :(
I remember hearing in school about United Fruit Company and Coca Cola Death squads but always assumed it was like in the 50s, crazy to think It was in the 90s. Also fun fact: Minor C Keith was related through marriage to at least 4 presidents of the country, one of which was his father in law
It's both. "banana wars" is a common series war that happened over a long time pre WW2, cold war, and 90's mostly in the support of the same companies.
The evilness in humanity that giving workers one day off is so repulsive that they find it easier to just kill people off just to get money they have no use for.
A lot of the workers live in the fields where they work, the pesticides are sprayed aerially so everything and everyone gets sprayed. I won't eat any fruit that comes from the south.
I can't believe you openly told the company you're allergic to their product they're probably going to ship that shitt to your door and randomly have bananas dropped all over your property by drones
I started watching this in the hotel room after getting back from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. premier in New York. It’s really wild to think back on that. Such a great time! Meeting Wendigoon, Evan, Stephen, Josh, and the others in person was the coolest experience I’ve had so far! Thanks so much for everyone putting that all together!
"Well something that anyone who knows anything about banana's can tell you is there isn't just one kind of banana. Bananas come in all different shapes sizes and colors, and that that is something the American consumer does not like" ~Wendigoon
@@Neflhim I wonder how they got the formulation right and then kept it the same over the years. With metal etc you can keep a block so it does not oxidize and use it as the standard. But exactly what goes on in the flavour compounds might be different.
@@20chocsaday I'd expect they got a specific formula, and kept to it like any recipe. Maybe as this or that compound needs to change, they get supertasters to make sure it stays consistent.
@@Neflhim Thanks. I've seen dyed cotton kept for years. Then 10 years later one of the dyes is no longer available and it is a complete reformulation. That is a nuisance.
You could aimlessly point at any innocuous item in your house and Wendiogoon would be able to tell you how it actually has ties to government overreach
I’m from Guatemala but I grew up in the states. So many of us idolize the US as the land of opportunities, that we tend to overlook its involvement in our own history and the opportunities it took from us. I never hear this talked about enough, and I’m glad that out of all my favorite TH-camrs, Wendigoon’s covering this
Just put some school of americas links in comments. New some american catholics 20 years ago that used to travel to south america to basically be human shields for union lrganozers and indigenous folks. The cia's impact was so so so evil.
I think it really is arguably one of the best countries with the most opportunities for everyone. But unfortunately no country had become a super power without doing done really dark stuff. The difference is that we're still free enough to openly discuss it, for now. Still, this was an absolute tragedy not to be understated.
@@DauntlessX23I'll agree with you on that too. My parents came to the US from Mexico because they saw an opportunity for us (my siblings and I) to succeed, where in Mexico they didn't.
Any other TH-camr saying they’re the most shadiest company in American history “oh, yeah but Nestle or a few others are probably worse” When Wendigoon says it “oh… oh no… oh no no no…”
Nestle isn't American, but yeah, they're pretty bad. Coca Cola and Shell Oil both made extensive use of death squads in South America and Africa, respectively.
Thank you for talking about Chiquita and it’s entire history. It is rarely talked about, but should be recognized, considering how many lives it affected and continues to affect.
" i dont even have to say "allegedly" they were found guilty in court" is a hard line
Right? He said allegedly and I thought "Nah, they did it". Spat my drink out when I heard him say they did it.
I didn't expect him to just spit that bar at me, left me in stitches
“Unallegedly”
No they were found liable in a civil court under a jurisdiction that was not in the country where it happened and was not under the laws in that country. During the 1920s such violence was all over the place, there were armed thugs hired by unionistas and terrible companies as law and order BROKE DOWN in the US over it. Assassinations were not common but they did happen though I've lost my references on those, my family well mostly ancestors now were connected to some of that in Appalachia and Kentucky and it was brutal.
@@PainfullyAverageHandle Allegen'tly
*Chiquita hired hit squad furiously scribbling*
"ALLERGIC TO BANANAS"
"In a shocking turn of events, popular youtube influencer Wendigoon was found dead after ingesting over two tons of bananas, a fruit he openly admitted to being allergic to only 72 hours earlier"
🎶"Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong
You're enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
How I hate to see you like this
There is no way you can deny it
I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet
Chiquitita, tell me the truth
I'm a shoulder you can cry on
Your best friend, I'm the one you must rely on" 🎶
@@princeCustos324 🤩
How unfortunate that Wendigoon was found stuck in a field of bananas, 6 of them stuffed up his mouth, lips swollen. Really strange that someone with a Banana allergy would be just so enthusiastic about bananas all of a sudden, but he will be missed. 😞😞
He got the gorilla fever😞
I always have gorilla fever...
This close to sounding like an Urbanspook entry on Wendigoon.
This is one of the best ones I've read😂😂😂 Good one❤
stuffed, huh?? 😏😏😏🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
As the son of a Guatemalan immigrant who fled the country from its civil war in the 80s, it gives me great pleasure knowing that individuals such as Wendigoon are able to take the time and create inciteful works of information and magnify it to audiences worldwide. Thank you for your unbiased approach to the truth and may more people be made aware of the atrocities that took place in that country. To this day, thousands of innocent indigenous families live there lives without knowing the whereabouts of their relatives that were taken from the government. May their pain be felt and heard to more easily pave the way towards restitution.
I can't imagine how difficult life must've been for you and your father or mother. I'm so sorry you both had to go through that
Yeah it's crazy that Guatamala and El Salvador even had civil wars
Damm that's though, i am from Costa Rica and while i don't have anu familiar relates to the bananeras I've reas some books about it and it is genuinely heart crushing and infuriating how every media try to cover it (at least in Costa Rica, but i assume it was like this in all of Latam, and it's also kind of sad that at the end of the day things are practically the same way
@@camaleonhippie7567 I'm Mexican american. So of course Mexico never had guerrillas apart from the zapatistas but that was a pretty brief incident. As you know Mexico and the united states were allies in the cold war
@@camaleonhippie7567 I don't think Costa Rica had guerrillas either am I right?
as a sam o' nella academy graduate, i am so glad my favorite class is finally getting talked about more
When does enrollment start for the next class? I haven’t seen Professor Sam’s lectures on the class catalogue lately.
When did you graduate? I don’t think any of us have graduated yet
Couldn't afford the syllabus
as a fellow graduate, glad to see my people in these comments😌
It’s great to see others mention him he came to my mind right away
It's so sad that Wendigoon ate 50,000 bananas in 10 minutes and died from radioactive poisoning
Damn. Really?
He will be missed
Remember if he dies, it wasnt**** from seversliding 😂😂
Ah, yes, THE RADIATION WILL KILL HIM
Ah yes, the r a d i a t i o n is what killed him
“Our government would never!” Was already a hilarious statement but each day now it seems to be getting even worse.
Hey, at least now you have one sane presidential candidate.
It was the case for a long time, General Smedley Butler published an entire book on it 1935. Nobody wants to admit they're the bad guys.
This "banana wars" was pretty one of the most immoral actions in US history, similar to the "pacification of the phillipinese" no one talks about. a war purely fought for the benefit of oligarchs, which especially pre WW2 the US was a oligarchs based system where even a president or two was a oligarch.
@@Peaches-i2i The bad guys were the oligarchs that controlled American society at the time.
@@bionicle1611 Vermin Supreme?
So if we find Wendigoon dead via an alergic reaction to a bannana being stuffed into EVERY orifice he has...we can be sure to know who to blame.
It was a suicide ofc
rest in peace Wendigoon. murdered by gorillas
"EVERY orifice" goes nuts 😭
The gyatamalans
MFW the silly banana company sassy twitter admin posts an image of Wendigoon with bananas in his ears, mouth foaming, to ratio his video announcement
I can't believe Wendigoon ate 150 bananas despite being allergic to bananas and then shot himself and then threw himself off a five story building. Such a tragic accident.
Who knew his entire crew would all die of accidents within a week of each other? I am sure the new crew and their new video "Chiquita Fruit Company, a History of Progress" will be a real banger.
it happens.. a clinton aide beat himself up, then with broken bones, he managed to hang himself, and used telekinesis to float a shtgun and used his psychic powers to shoot himself in the chest..
he just really really wanted to d!e, no conspiracy there and a clear case of suicidi..
this joke is new and original, you are so smart and funny
@@RyanONeal-zd6zu This comment is new and original, you are also so smart and funny. Keep up the good work there Officer 'O Neal of the Comment Police.
@@briankelly130 That wasn't funny at all.
babe wake up, the iceberg boy is going bananas
Underrated
I'M GONNA GO BANANAS
OH MY GOD
Iceberg boi shedding them LBS on that banana diet. Crazy transformation. I see you Wendy 💯
sleep with one eye open lil buddy
That's bananas.
Screw you
Real
That’s it?
You stole my comment buddy 😡😡😡
So true
I respect your courage to admit that you have a banana allergy, on a video about banana companies that hire hitmen
This literally made me tear up, I'm from Costa Rica and my grandpa worked as a railroad operator for the united fruit company, the conditions were horrible and I've been hearing horror stories about that time for as long as I can remember, it's so surreal to hear my favorite youtuber talk about this dark part of our history that always gets ignored, thank you, i wish my grandpa were here to see this
I'm so sorry. Glad the word is finally getting out.
De hecho, este es un video donde los comentarios no se me hacen tan graciosos, sólo por saber que a los abuelos de uno sí les tocó vivir eso
@@KenzoDNogueraGomez me pasa igual, mejor ni seguí leyendo los comentarios porque me sienta mal... pero igual agradezco mucho que este video exista, así las historias de nuestros abuelos llegan a más gente
Being from Colombia I had to do a double take when I saw the video posted, "la masacre de las bananeras" as we call it here is a story that's ingrained in our heads since childhood.
Sometimes a country is only remembered for the excesses of a few.
I’ve always been interested in Wendigoon’s content also because of our country’s history 🇨🇴, I almost screamed when I saw the title of this video.
@@20chocsaday not the only example of eufacilitating massacres in latin america. Pinochet is a very famous example and it wasnt a hird party but the united states goverment itself
Thank god that it's being remembered. These companies would do ANYTHING to have us forget.
La vieja esa diciendo “la masacre de las bananeras es un mito” para luego condenar a García Márquez.
¡Dios nos salve de las bodegas de Musk! Si no fue con Petro nunca con la Vicky esa
Gosh, I can't believe Wendigoon is going to accidentally trip out a 28th floor window onto 37.5 bullets, and before strangling himself with a garotte wire, and only the day before he was going to post this video. Stay safe out there whistleblowers.
37.5 bc one of the guns jammed bc it was a M16 from Springfield Armory💀
@@michaelpalmatier3256 bro💀💀💀💀
@@michaelpalmatier3256I remember that video
And with a banana in his mouth.
Big Banana is watching you.
What surprises me more than all the deaths and tragedies behind Chiquita is that Wendigoon just recently learned about it.
That is how the whole "empire" thing works
Most copy Rome, who bring "civilization" to "barbarians" (a slur for foregeiners at the time).
This and all the benefit of exploiting other countries is how the "boomer" generation surge.
Basicly, boomera where the same as british/spanish citicens during the colonial times of 1700.
Gaining all the benefit so why question it?
The only one who did where hippies, especially against the invation like Vietnam, yet this people where socially ostracized and beaten by police forces withouth repercution.
wait til he covers what Citi and France did to Haiti
At this point, I'd be more surprised to hear about a small country in the global south that wasn't completely destroyed by western capitalists for short term gains
Seriously, that actually hurt a bit.
@@logancatron2239 Uruguay I think hasn't had a multinational /foreign backed coup? I'm probably wrong though
i know this one! i’m a born and raised colombian - along coastal towns, village folk will still insist that the death count that day in ciénaga was well over 2,000, and apparently, the sea ran red. gruesome stuff!
La masacre de las bananeras, el pedazo de historia de Colombia al que ni se sabe cuantas muertes hubo por la corrupcion de esa empresa. Hasta Gabriel Garcia Marquez lo menciono en el libro mas famoso de el, Cien Años de Soledad....
@@akkuma8689 Justo pensé en eso, estoy leyéndolo y cuando llegue a esa parte, fue como "Esto paso? pues si, y nadie habla de eso?." Es terrorífico todo lo de la empresa bananera.
dam..
And they tried to gaslight Colombians into thinking it never happened 😭 had to write an essay in school about whether we thought it did in fact happen or not!!!
@@Ivanna-rr6vh They try to gaslight us Americans too. They tell us 9/11 and all sorts of other things like JFK were just coincidences but really they were in on it
“I worked for a banana company, they funded death squads.”
Love your work!
That's bananas 🍌
Omg great comment 😭😭
When's your next penguinz0 video lol
@@Garrry2121"what if I just copy the top comment to get meaningless likes on youtube"
Wendi: I have a banana allergy
Chiquitas: *strokes chin*
NOOOOOO
Reminder, Wendigoon is happy and doesn't want to roblox oof himself
Eisenhower: * rises from the grave * COMMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!
*"What do you mean by that?"*
That not wrong it just a tic some people do
Costa Rican here. I’m extremely surprised that it took them THAT long to find them guilty from funding paramilitary groups
Compatriota
they have the US military industrial complex and the holy USD behind them.
The part about slipping on bananas, it was actually such a huge problem back then, not because people were slipping on them left and right, but because con artists were doing it on purpose and getting paid by the city every time lol
that’s the funniest info that could come out of this story
Goofy ahh crime
@@positivevibesveda Look for the article “When New Yorkers Were Menaced by Banana Peels” on Atlas Obscura
gonna start doing this in mario kart actually
I wonder if, that is why its a thing in mario kart.
If you're wondering how so many people were dying on banana plantations: falling. I visited Guatemala 3 weeks ago and the banana farms are built on cliffs. And they plant trees right up to the edge basically. There’s a small fence to maybe keep you in, but it's not really gonna stop you. The hospitals regularly get people coming in with broken bones or worse because they fell off their farm.
I imagine mosquito-borne illnesses would be another leading cause of death? As well as spider bites, as those venomous spidery monstrosities are known to get into boxes of bananas!
@@HavianEla Spiderbites are actually responsible for fewer than ten deaths a year, they're easily treatable and rarely fatal in healthy adults
Jesus, is there a reason why they’re built on cliffs? Just seems so preventable.
@@avpman150 Not really. The entire country is mountains and jungles, usually both simultaneously. Guatemala City is built at the base of 5 volcanoes. The fertile is absolutely JUICED because of the volcanism, but flat land is rare, so terrace farming is just what you gotta do.
It may also be getting sprayed by the pesticides that are used, pretty bad problem
The juxtaposition of laws being passed to protect people from slipping on banana peels and hiring death squads is wild, lol.
Went from a silly little factoid to dark, real fast
It's like a venn diagram between "we live in the bad timeline" and "we live in an actual cartoon."
@@eyesofthecervino3366 Our reality was dark Toon Town all along.
Tbf they were different chains of authority but yeah it is insane nonetheless
I'm from Colombia and man I love how you cover such a topic. We learn pretty early in the history of our country that the USA has screwed us on more than one occasion, La guerra de las bananeras, the military takeover of panama while we were in a civil war. It really means a lot for us that people from other countries talk about this.
Didn't manual Noriega launder cocaine money for Pablo Escobar?
As an American, the USA has been screwing the entire continents of Central & South America since the day it was born. So sorry you gotta deal with the brutality of our government. Cuidaté
Not wearing a Hawaiian shirt on your episode about a tropical fruit company is absolutely bananas.
but is wearing banana republic shirt more appropriate
@@mikepj67 yeah, I think so
It's the "LINEN FRENCH TERRY RESORT SHIRT"
It's a "resort shirt" which is fitting for a story about Central America.
In fact, maybe more appropriate than a Hawaiian shirt since Central America has resorts but no Hawaii
Im Colombian, I can say that, you don’t
Genuinely shocked that Wendigoon had never heard of the Banana Wars before this. That’s right up his alley.
personally, as a Colombian, I think it speaks volumes about the American education system and how it prioritizes pushing propaganda over teaching real US history
@@sou.1083 It used to be.... less bad. But yeah... they... only teach the parts of history they like.
@@sou.1083millions of us do know. The cia was evil.
So real. When I first got reccomended this vid I thought it was an older past video I had already seen and was so confused
@@sou.1083That's not unique to America, essentially every country does this. Its extremely disgusting to me that this is common behavior in America especially considering how much our country preaches the ideals of freedom, truth, justice, and liberty.
*banana company mascots surround you* “Peel em, boys.”
"but. I dont like this one. It's got a bruise."
@@jacobhesington6725 peel off your skin
@@ambermoon6004
I don’t like this one, it’s stinky.
@@leosanchez7997
This isn’t even a banana, but I guess you can peel an orange.
@@Eggzrgoood nah peel off your skin
When you ask the minions who they worked for in the cold war:
And the Dole fruit company was instrumental in overthrowing the Hawaiian monarchy and installing their own government which lead to Hawaii becoming a state against their will.
This is the one I'm constantly thinking about.
not to mention literally overwhelming them with numbers in their housing and financial markets, forcing them to leave native lands even to this day
I thought they sold fruits not instruments.
Disney fruit company, you mean.
Didn't know this, great nugget of history
It's so crazy that wendigoon entered a banana eating contest in a now deleted video before falling backwards off his chair hitting his head on a spike after 3 consecutive loud pop noises were heard and then the wind pushed him into a meat grinder and his remains weren't able to be recovered after he ate 600 bananas the day before while he was drunk
Thought I was going insane that video is the video
Wait what ???
@@Emilianoo8
Oh sweet summer child...
The CIA has overthrown most of these counties and literally called shit this ridiculous an "unfortunate accident" or "robbery gone wrong" or their favorite "He was game ending himself"
In fact my favorite is a member of the chemical biological radiological nuclear CBRN talked about quitting, was having drinks with the then head of the CIA and shortly after made a running jump out of a window with all evidence showing he was not just pushed but literally thrown off the building
Seriously, you are a danger to yourself and literally the entire world if you're stupid enough to have a shred of trust towards any US government official or their blatant lies
it's so weird that he also managed to eat approximately 40,000 bananas in the span of 15 minutes before all this had happened, too
A colombian follower here, thanks for sharing one of the darkest episodes of my country so more people around the world can see what we have been through and despite everything, we continued fighting for this beatiful country and his beautiful people. Saludos y abrazos!!!
I live in the southern us and in highschool, a teacher of mine taught us about the Chiquita banana geopolitical shit and all of that, it blew our minds. Like you said, it needs to have light brought to it so it never happens again.
Wow that’s bananas
So, the cocaine trade isn't worse than this??? Ya, boy Pablo????
Ain't y'all got a hippo problem because of a cocaine dealer
Indeed, they are being hunted 'till this day because they are considered a invasive species @@chinchillageneral
as someone who is guatemalan-colombian thank you so much for shedding light on this, it’s a really important and disturbing part of history that is not talked about as much as it should be, so it does mean a lot seeing someone whose content i love and who has a large audience talking about this ❤
Hi, I'm from Guatemala and I honestly thank you so much for talking about this. You have no idea how much this impacted our country, it was so bad that we still suffer the consequences from it today. One of our earliest chances of getting a better country was absolutely destroyed by this (and other issues like genocide, but that's another story mildly related to this one)
And the true insult Is that the same country that caused all this, has the gall to criticize and denounce the people of El Salvador for supporting Bukele. As if they know what's best for Central America
And yet, the US clearly feels no remorse for this atrocity because we continue to destabilize any country we deem “a threat” (e.g., not letting the US exploit valuable resources). I wish we would learn.
@@erinmarieee23 I wish we would double down.
@@rudysmith1552 .... on extrajudicial murder...?
Never heard anyone go THAT mask-off before, but ok.
I'm from Guatemala as well and when I learned this it just broke my heart deeply, it's so depressing knowing that the greed of some individuals destroyed the hope of an entire country (countries if we are being honest).
Fun Fact: A similar situation to a Banana Republic almost happened in United States territory.
You might've heard about the town of Hershey. Which is entirely owned and founded by chocolate conglomerate, Henry Hershey. It was a completely owned company town where workers sleep, eat, socialize and work entirely inside the town.
Hershey basically had an entire small state all to himself. He imposed his own company policies as laws, his own minimum wage, he even had all the businesses in town privately owned by him from small diners to movie theaters.
Eventually, the workers decided to strike because of the comparatively low minimum wage they have in comparison to other workers who worked for other companies. Hershey befuddled, decided to do nothing for days on end which halted chocolate production completely.
This (which is either intentional or insane coincidence) sparked outrage amongst the local dairy farmers that Hershey buys his milk from. So much so that they broke the strike themselves by breaking into the locked up factory and beating up the striking workers for getting between them and that sweet Hershey paycheck.
A wealthy conglomerate owning 100% of everything on a piece of land with practically infinite power to do his bidding on it. Thankfully "Chocolate Republic" never caught on because there was only one Hershey town whereas there were many south american republics that were turned into glorified giant banana farms
Fun Fact: That wasn't the only company town.
@@pieceofschmidtgamer oh gosh it was common
@@pieceofschmidtgamer Doesn't Disney have a company town?
a big matress company is building a company town in new zealand sometime soon
That was far from the only company town, unfortunately. To look at the long-term damage company towns create, turn your eyes to Gary, Indiana.
According to a former coworker who was higher up at Chiquita, companies like this have ransom budgets for when employees get kidnapped in Central America. Usually it’s surprisingly rote, the kidnapping is just the employee goes up to the wrong person holding their name at the airport. Couple hours in a van or dropped off at a holding site, company is contacted and ransom paid, employee is released.
The Intel computer company hires PMCs to protect it's workers who live in the United States that have to go over the border to their job sites in Mexico. More larger companies are doing this now because of a number of incidents in the 90s and early 2000s where the ransom was paid and they killed the employee anyway.
thank you,,, i grew up having some idea of this as a kid but felt crazy given how much chiquita banana is everywhere and no one else seemed to know or care
The US military was used many times in what are known as the Banana Wars. US Marines were used as the strong arm for fruit and sugar companies. Smedley Butler wrote a book about it: War is a Racket.
Bill Cooper was friends with him wasn't he?
a great book for sure
If Wendigoon hasn't read War is a racket He's slackiing
@@2Lab-q4f anti capitalism propaganda.
@@seananon4893 Bill Cooper wasnt even born when Smedley Butler died.
“COMMMIE COMMMIEE”
“Yeah go ‘get em Dwight.”
“REEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
Edit: I didn’t think he would actually use Sam’s clip 😂
I was waiting for this comment
Sammmmmm
SAM O’ NELLA REFERENCE!?!??!?!!? 😦🚨‼️🚨🚨
"Holy shit, you actually did it"
WORLDSTAR
That sam'o'nella vid is youtube history, they all are to be fair, but the comie screech is beyond hilarious
it sounded like cartman's pig squeal LOL
Not really
@@Neil.Anblomiyes really
it's my first time seeing it but it has rage comics energy and i'm here for it
I would love if because of this video, wendigoon had to hire one of those bodyguards that takes a bite of every piece of food you’re offered to check for poison. But instead of poison, they just have to check if it tastes like bananas.
What's crazy about this is that it goes so much further and deeper than what you were able to fit into this video with your super busy schedule. The fact that the CIA has spent so much effort and time, even now, in meddling in South American politics is something that should be recognised more. I'm glad you did this.
As an aside absolutely wild that the Stalker tour has plushies for sale when they haven't even fulfilled their Kickstarter plushie rewards.
my parents were born in central america (guatemala/ nicaragua) this company created one of the longest lasting civil wars in human history in Guatemala…my dad grew up when the fighting was really bad. this is why i value my freedom.
Temu: We're the most evil company out there!
Absolutely any banana company: hold my beer.
Don't forget Nestle too
dont you mean "hold my banana"?
Is Temu evil?
I'm not defending them (I don't even like them), I genuinely don't know.
@@plagueday5395No yeah, people say it’s Chinese spyware. Look it up legend. Plus I mean. Something’s gotta be a little wrong to have such cheap prices for things lol.
@@plagueday5395Ye, they are exploiting workers in China real hard
"I hope the world doesn't hurt you" is the northern equivalent of "Bless your heart"
You need to keep in mind that when Árbenz forcibly purchased the land he did from Chiquita, he paid them the price Chiquita claimed the land was valued at when they paid property taxes the prior year. He litterally paid them what they said it was worth. However, to everyone's complete utter shock, I'm sure, they were lying.
Remember that Arbenz did not give it to the actual people, they didn't give property rights for the land, and most of those lands today are owned by the families of the people in the Arbenz govt that kept them for themselves. Arbenz also killed a lot of students that opposed the communist policies (Fernando Cruz Wer and Jaime Rosenberg were the main assasins commanded to torture and kill civilians that opposed the regime). A lot of people in Guatemala praise Arbenz because history classes are basically state-sponsored adoctrination that paint him as a hero, where in reality , he was like any other communist leader around the world. His wife was the extremist one that convinced him to do a lot of bad things. The UFCo sucked, but the revolution that took out Arbenz was legit. When Castillo Armas assumed power, he had the largest support ever, there's a lot of news and video from the time that show the support to remove Arbenz was real, the UFCo and the US got involved at the end.
@@deyoloco3110 a lot of CIA propaganda. The reason that people remember him favorably is because instead of having a full-blown Civil War he chose to resign peacefully. Most of the killings in Guatemala happened after he resigned, which is something you’re kinda leaving out probably because you’re on the other political side of the spectrum
@@rootin222 not leaving them out. If you read unbiased history, you will see that after the 1944 revolution, the elections were rigged and there is documentation that Juan Jose Arevalo promised the presidency to Arana, and Arbenz sent people to kill Arana. And after that he was the only popular candidate. He started to do really bad things with socialist policies that still affect Guatemalans today. This is not CIA propaganda. The CIA propaganda came at the end of the 1954 coup. But if you look up the assassinations done by Arbenz, he focused primarily on university students that were against communism. After killing and torturing them, he exiled another bunch of them, along with soldiers that were not loyal. Again, not propaganda, actual history. The thing is that Guatemala history is filled with biased information. A lot of the massacres during the war were also done by the guerrillas to frame the army, but they don't tell you that in the indoctrination books.
@@deyoloco3110 A communist lines the pockets of himself and his family while letting the people suffer? What a shock.
@@deyoloco3110 stop lying
Thank you for this, my mom was a protester in Guatemala fighting for the rights of the indigenous people. She had to flee the country for it even while being non violent. While I’ll always understand the privilege it is to be in the states, the opportunities and life i live here wouldn’t be possible over there, i can’t help but feel contempt for how it helped further rip Guatemala apart. My mom and both my countries gave me a deep appreciation for those who lose their voice when governments stop working for the people. I think the US and Guatemala are beautiful countries with good, hard working people. But sadly Chiquita and the US really did unspeakable things to Guatemala.
Fellow Guatemalan here and I agree
Did Guatemala ever have a government that ever worked for its people?
@MeanBeanComedy did you watch the video? They tried but the company & US replaced the president with a dictator
@@MeanBeanComedy I would say no, we’ve never had a chance. Right now it’s a broken country (beautiful country, but broken). We’ve always been plagued with corruption and some other big country wanting to control us for one reason or another. With covid it was vaccines by the Russians, and the US has recently had its hand in government affairs. A family member of mine works in tech and has worked with the US government in Guatemalan digital infrastructure. How far that goes i don’t know, i don’t think they do either. Idk if you were looking for a real answer, but ya the people are fairly aware that the situation has never been good. We just take it as it comes. :/
@@MeanBeanComedyyes they did for a short time until the coup. Did you even watch the video?
I’m so glad you covered this. This was actually the first time I ever heard about a private company doing messed up stuff like this. Obviously commonly known now that companies are this messed up, but 10 year old me was blown away by the fact that companies have the ability to hire private armies to completely decimate a population for something as trivial like bananas.
If there's a demand, someone out there will meet it, and there will always be people who are willing to do absolutely anything to make money
Glad to hear. Look up what Coca Cola did to South American employees who tried to go on strike. A lot of people died.
something similar happened with ford, im sure goon covered it at somr point, "fordlandia" is the term if he hasnt
Keep in mind, it's not something as 'trivial as bananas'.
It's literally billions of dollars. Bananas are just the product.
No one should be surprised.
Always has been...
I suddenly developed an almost identical allergy like 6 years ago. From my research/understanding, it's called an Oral Allergy Reaction (OAR) due to bananas sharing a pollen protein with ragweed (which I've been allergic to for years). However, if I eat things like banana bread or pudding, completely fine.
I saw this in my notifications at work and said "Oh sweet Wendigoon finally made a video about Chiquita Banana and how they funded private death squads to ensure efficient farming operations". I then realized by my coworker's face that was not common knowledge and not everyone had a cool high school history teacher.
They were probably just shocked to realize their coworker is a fucking skinwalker. Who the hell uses "ensure" in casual conversation? That's not how humans talk.
Yea, I was surprised this wasn’t common knowledge.
@@stevenarmstrong5364Culture shock, I suppose
Or not everyone is Latin American. Over here it’s basically a common statement like if something goes wrong it’s the USA’s fault.
Wtf TH-cam is copying TikTok they’re doing the blue text search thing
I was so sad to hear Wendigoon road the sewer slide by eating a banana, hacking himself into pieces with a chainsaw, and mailing himself in nicely wrapped packages to all his friends and family.
Gelato and Sorbet ahh treatment
are you sure you haven't been watching blackadder recently.
He mailed his stomach completely intact filled with nearly a 100 whole bananas. Not peeled, not eaten. Just 100 swallowed bananas. Done completely voluntarily and of his own free will.
rode*
What o.o
It feels so weird not seeing him in a tropical shirt
I legit though he was wearing an orange jumpsuit until he mentioned it being a shirt from Banana Republic
Im at the very start of the video, I KNEW something was weird about him. LOL
In the last video, he even wore a BLACK T-SHIRT
(… I know, it‘s his own merch)
I remember reading about this issue about 15 years ago and it really disillusioned me about American corporations. It's a very eye opening topic and i am glad you are highlighting it.
As someone who watched the Sam O Nella video on this, the intro to this video when he's like "If you saw they were sponsoring death squads, you were also probably confused" but as soon as I saw that headline I was like "Yeah sounds about right"
I've had a bit of familiarity with the Banana Republics for a while, because I like to know which companies I see in Walmart have actively killed civilians
Yoo I knew there'd be people who had watched Sam O Nella here 😂
I was like "Took them long enough."
*alt-right (in 2020’s language)
That thing about harassing a company by taking their produce for "inspection" knowing it will go bad before they get it back? Yeah the state of Pennsylvania appears to have recently done that to an Amish farmer named Amos Miller. A lot of really shady stuff going on in that case.
The fact that Salmonella Academy pushed thus topic to the stratosphere will forever make me smile.
Its a shame hes not around to see where his work has gotten him.
@@kbeargaming3449but he's posting vids again
@@donniehamilton7797 2 in a year does not a regular upload schedule make.
@@kbeargaming3449*whispers* let us hope…
@@kbeargaming3449 better than nothing
As a Colombian that lived near the place this massacre went through is horrific the stories and the ambience in there, the house I sued to live was a common grave that went dismantled when the military base was constructed, and it was a nightmare house, at night u can feel people watching u, how they were walking around the house and screams and the smell of blood, it was horrible and the town still has the pain of what happened, I moved years ago but when in school I was tough about it i was soooo terrified its was so heartbreaking knowing that while I was riding bikes w my friends, having sleepovers and studying kilometers away there were graves of people and a town full of blood
Banana republic naming their stuff after it is like if some brand of boots called their brand Holocaust Boots. Truly insane
i know lol always kinda blew my mind that a clothing brand, a clothing brand that makes semi-nice clothes for suburban white people, would name themselves something like that.
It just seems like SUCH a bad look.
That’s how I feel about thanksgiving 😂
Isn't that just Thursday boots? Its not thursday yet boy
@@BirdieBlrrrdexcept thanksgiving doesn’t mean anything bad
@@venicesgfoh yes it does there’s a very dark past behind it
As a Colombian it isn't a surprise to learn that the Masacre de las Bananeras and other things that United Fruit Co. (and others) did were not common knowledge until last month. The US of A do have a reputation of "embellishing" the history that they teach at their schools. I'm glad that all of this is being talked about, no matter how long ago it happened.
As an American who was once in History class, everything around what our country and the fruit companies did is certainly at the very least, watered down and white washed.
All I remember learning about this in school was that it was mainly the fruit companies acting badly by treating their workers poorly, and exploiting the countries economies through their monopolies on the industry and infrastructure. They conveniently don't mention the parts about the death squads and coups.
i don’t think i ever even heard about this in school, and i was in AP and IB classes💀
Edit: i vaguely remember hearing the name Eli Black in my AP Gov class
Canada teaches about all these items ;) we gotchu.
I'm moving to south America (likely Argentina) from Canada cuz I am so sick of this country an the direction it's headed... Can't wait to join you...
@@1blackice1 you cant really generalize curriculum across the entire country like that. Yeah, there are standards that must be met, but states can go about it quite differently. My history classes I took in highschool didnt whitewash or pretend like we were doing anything good with the banana republics. Especially once you got to stuff like AP US history. They talked about that stuff in detail. My teacher was pretty invested in us, and she was pretty hellbent on not glossing over anything.
Tho as far as the class was concerned, US history ended around 1990, and didnt really cover anything beyond.
i lived in a few different states growing up, and each state was quite different in how they taught subjects or what order they taught them in. Though that was mostly visible in the k-8th grade sorta bracket, highschool was pretty similar in the order of classes taken, and which classes had to be taken. I remember when I first moved to NC from NY, 5th grade, I was totally confused because their curriculum included a lot about the outer banks and the famous lighthouses. Which of course I had heard nothing about living in new york.
I'd say it depends a lot on the school. My 8th grade history class back in the 80s covered it as the fruit companies manipulated the governments for their profits and did horrible things. They just didn't go into the full details of the horrible things.
Sam O'Nella prepped me for this one!
Edit: 19:14 LOL
Ya dude same o’nella talked about this
SAM O’NELLA MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥WHAT THE HELL IS A NORMAL UPLOADING SCHEDULE
Commie!!!
Commie!!!
I was about to comment the same thing LMAO
Definitely the best video on the subject since Sam O’Nella’s!
I'll never get over this.
I'm not personally affected but it's just crazy how a country could ruin the futures of millions of people for some fruit.
there are 6 dots on that poster from a light source and I cant help but think there's a secret message Wendigoon is trying to convey when he moves his arms in such a way to block certain ones at certain intervals.
I love schizo posting
It's Morse code. But it's been 40 years since I was a boy scout, so I'll be damned if I know what it means. Ask the dude from Lore Lodge.
@@comradeurod9805tbh that is something wendigoon would do just to see if anyone notices
@@RobertRectenwald-jw3bo .-.. --- .-.. / .-.. --- --- -.- / .- - / - .... .. ... / -.. .-- . . -... -.-.--
Ikr i kept seeing it
So my late friend was the first Chiquita banana lady. She was in her early 20s when the character was introduced in the 1940s and her role was to basically go into the studio and record these lines and songs about gross banana recipes for movie trailers, usually involving aspic of some description, to get Americans to buy the fruit.
Eventually after she left to become an actress and singer, she told me she followed along with the news and strange company legacy and this whole business, and as far as I know she was still reading the news about it when she passed at 93.
what was her name
@@PorterMayhannFaker McLiarson, she lived at 123 Fake st.
@@crakkbonethought so 😂
Not the OP but her name was Monica Lewis and she did indeed die at 93 in 2015. She wouldve been 22 or so when she recorded those lines. Its not at all outside the realm of possibility someone watching this video knew her. Old people use the internet too
@@hannahbrown27287 degrees from Kevin bacon proves it’s all about who you know entirely possible
THANK YOU WENDIGOON! Chiquitas 100 year rampage on Latin America is one of the most glossed over and ignored parts of our history. Most of us never even hear about it until well after school despite them and the US being largely responsible for a lot of the conditions that we live under today. Thank you so much for covering this.
americans when migrants flee the countries americans destabilized: 🤯
@whatwhyy so whole nations are to blame for a government?
Good to know that, seeing the cartels you simp for
Cry
What the f are you talking about, this has nothing to do with migrants, it's about exploitive corporations, who often hire migrants and exploit labor laws@@whatwhyy
@@whatwhyyNot us, our government. Specifically our right-wing side, although the non-progressive left (because progressives actually care about other human beings and want positive change for all) is also responsible, just less heinous that the pigs who make up our Republican party.
I'm subscribed to one of the people involved with this entire mess, so seeing your title instantly reminded me of those personal talks during livestreams. Great job laying out the goofy and (mostly) macabre aspects of this saga.
Fun fact: United Fruit Company owns the local store, the school and even the brothel on the communities were they operate. Hence, they never lost a penny on the production
TL:DR, The banana boys own the sex house.
My response to hearing the news wasn't "what?", but rather "oh again?"
Colombian here, nuts that wendigoon is covering a huge part of our story that caused so much harm and pain. Now gonna watch.
means alot you’re touching on this subject!
Wow I never expected to listen to the entirety of a 43 minute video about banana history. Wendigoon this is my first time finding your channel but I wanna say you got a really unique and special talent for talking about history in a way that makes it interesting! Great video look forward to whatever is next!
Minecraft TH-camr with 1m subs 😬
I rebuilt the iceberg 11 years later…
997k wendigoons
@wunba you should definitely look at his back log of videos. He does real-life history, like the Waco cult. But he also does "sci-fi/fantasy" videos, like his monument mythos and mystery flesh pit video. He talks about them in such a way that you forget it's fiction and not real life.
That's my intro to him @@autumnmolick1333. And I did think"shit that's scary. Why can't I go there?" while doing a search. Yes I pressed enter before realizing this fake AF.
Been rockin wit him ever since.
Their main office is right near my house. I did work on a car for a lawyer outside of their headquarters in Dania. He was surprised I knew so much about their history, thought I might have weirded him out. He was friendly though and tipped me really well, but I think I got my feelings across pretty decently.
There’s gonna be girls at the party be cool.
My goofy ass: Did you know a banana company hired death squads?
The cool ones will already know
Did you know the CIA faked vampire attacks to take over the Philippines?
any girl worth your time will either already know or be super interested to learn
Hit ‘em with the cheese tunnel lore (also on the wendigoon channel)
If none of the girls are at all interested in that story, you ain't findin the "one" there my guy
The photo of the president of Guatemala you put as Jacobo Arbenz in 16:58 is not him. That guy is Jorge Ubico Castañeda, the president and dictator of Guatemala from 1931-1944. And, Arbenz wasn't the founder of the Guatemalan Party of Labor or PGT in spanish as we know it here. He wasn't elected by that party, but by the Revolutionary Action Party. The PGT was only a party part of their legislative coalition in Congress. One thing he didn't mention was that there was almost a war between Guatemala and Honduras, started by a fight between UFCO and Cuyamel FCO, because they wanted more land for their plantations in the shores of the Motagua river.
The fact that they have The Minions on chiquita banana stickers is much more appropriate than people think.
for my essay to get into college I wrote about a book called "Bitter Fruit" which is a book based around the U.S sponsered coup in Guatemala that took place in 1954. It's a seriously horriffic book that takes the first hand account of someone who lived through it. I'd highly reccomend it to anyone who watched Wendi's vid and wants to learn more about this.
Eric Holder, Obama's appointee to the position of Attorney General, was the banana deathsquad lawyer.
@@Polit_Burro If you think you're going to shock anyone with that, I don't think you will. Democrats were already pretty pissed about that back when it happened.
Eric Holder is... not a good guy, to say the least.
@@idontwantahandlethough LOL So "pissed" that they voted for him twice. That's some powerful "pissed"! LOL
@@Polit_Burroduh, appointing a guy isn't nearly as important as Obamacare and economic recovery
@@vulpes7079 So if we agree with whatever a politician is doing we can ignore all the bad things he is doing? Did you even watch this video?
Nestlé: "We're the worst corporation, we starved over a million babies in Africa for profit."
Chiquita: _boss music plays_
Aww but they also steal billions of gallons of water from the US and other countries, stealing water is exponentially worse than banana related crimes cx
Chiquita Banana, Chiquita Banana, Obama!
Chiquita Banana, Chiquita Banana, Oshkosh B'Gosh!
Chiquita Banana, Chiquita Banana, Obama!
A simple suppertime s' bout a dime of love!
Holy fuck i love nestle now
East India Company: Hold my pint
British Spice Trade: Ho, so you're approaching me?
Fun fact , the pre Panama Disease bananas supposedly tasted like the artificial banana candy flavor (like Laffy Taffy) . They based the candy flavor off of those bananas and that’s why it doesn’t taste like the bananas we have now ! If remember correctly (no guarantees) it was called the Big Mike banana and it went mostly extinct. I say misty because there is a few online companies that grow say they grow them but I’m not paying what they are charging for them to find out lol.
fun fact, that fun catchy “tally me banana” song is written from the perspective of people enslaved in these banana plantations. if they didn’t meet quota they couldn’t leave and they were violently punished.
Actual name of the song is Banana Boat. You can't make this up.
where is the fun of this fact?
@@delnite5825¯\_(ツ)_/¯
…i guess it’s a lot of fun if you’re a psychopath?
Working all night and dealing with highly deadly black tarantulas, both would have seemed shocking to 50's housewives and perhaps the song is meant to prick their Martini soaked and diet pill addled consciences.
@@delnite5825 we make it fun so we don't cry.
You're telling me a giant corporation would fund a paramilitary death squad to protect their Golden goose bananas? Noo way 😱😱😱
No no no no no, that would never happen, and Hillary's kill list is made up mumbo jumbo.
Gotta PROTECT what you trade.
*corporation
@@sneed. You forgot the "The" infront of that.
Im Colombian, that the Colombian history: it still hurts (also Israel funding the same groups and Musk seeing us as cartoonish brown)
A paradise in the middle of a war :(
Thank you for blessing us this evening, Mr. Goon.
goonsquad!
I love gooning ( appreciating Mr. Goon)
Thank god for the free market, without unregulated corporations we would miss out on all these paramilitary massacres!
I remember hearing in school about United Fruit Company and Coca Cola Death squads but always assumed it was like in the 50s, crazy to think It was in the 90s.
Also fun fact: Minor C Keith was related through marriage to at least 4 presidents of the country, one of which was his father in law
It's both. "banana wars" is a common series war that happened over a long time pre WW2, cold war, and 90's mostly in the support of the same companies.
The evilness in humanity that giving workers one day off is so repulsive that they find it easier to just kill people off just to get money they have no use for.
A lot of the workers live in the fields where they work, the pesticides are sprayed aerially so everything and everyone gets sprayed.
I won't eat any fruit that comes from the south.
Oh no, no humanity was involved in that. Just a regular thing for a capitalist to do
Greece just instituted a 6 day work week countrywide, thanks America for sending the Greek economy into hell
Isn't enchecked capitalism great?
@@autumnsierra2401 How did we do anything to Greece? Wouldn't the EU have more sway over Greece?
Wendigoon x Sam O'Nella was not the crossover I was expecting, but one I definitely needed.
COOOOMIIIIIIEEEEEEE
I'm so glad you covered it, it's seriously a huge scandal that is so niche.
Wendigoon’s soft counter being bananas is somehow extremely on brand for him
God had to hit him with those galactic patch note balances
Wendigoon wearing a Banana Republic shirt while talking about the original banana republic is the most Wendigoon thing he could've done
I can't believe you openly told the company you're allergic to their product they're probably going to ship that shitt to your door and randomly have bananas dropped all over your property by drones
That was my thought too 😭
I bet his drinking water starts tasting like banana's over the next few days.
I started watching this in the hotel room after getting back from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. premier in New York. It’s really wild to think back on that. Such a great time! Meeting Wendigoon, Evan, Stephen, Josh, and the others in person was the coolest experience I’ve had so far! Thanks so much for everyone putting that all together!
"Well something that anyone who knows anything about banana's can tell you is there isn't just one kind of banana. Bananas come in all different shapes sizes and colors, and that that is something the American consumer does not like" ~Wendigoon
It's true, though
This is a new episode of: "if wendigoon dies in a car crash in next few days, we know who did it"
I mean.... this is old news dude.
It's like when FriendlyJordie's house got firebombed. It could be anyone from the mafia to the federal government.
You’re telling me they don’t normally do that?
Not on that level.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo Read about what they did before they changed the name to Chiquita.
@@DeliveryMcGee that's what the video is about.
@@SergioLeonardoCornejo 🤨
yeah that seems par for the course tbh
This is amazing, Wendigoon. Go deeper. The Dulles brothers. Frank Olson. Frank Wisner. There's so much more where this came from.
Interesting side note - the banana flavor used in everything is from that extinct variety, which is why it tastes nothing like a banana in the store.
Is it just a chemical cocktail made in stainless steel vats?
@@20chocsaday well, yes, but the flavor is based on the extinct variety.
@@Neflhim I wonder how they got the formulation right and then kept it the same over the years.
With metal etc you can keep a block so it does not oxidize and use it as the standard. But exactly what goes on in the flavour compounds might be different.
@@20chocsaday I'd expect they got a specific formula, and kept to it like any recipe. Maybe as this or that compound needs to change, they get supertasters to make sure it stays consistent.
@@Neflhim Thanks.
I've seen dyed cotton kept for years. Then 10 years later one of the dyes is no longer available and it is a complete reformulation.
That is a nuisance.
You could aimlessly point at any innocuous item in your house and Wendiogoon would be able to tell you how it actually has ties to government overreach
I’m from Guatemala but I grew up in the states. So many of us idolize the US as the land of opportunities, that we tend to overlook its involvement in our own history and the opportunities it took from us. I never hear this talked about enough, and I’m glad that out of all my favorite TH-camrs, Wendigoon’s covering this
No country has done more crimes in Latin America than the US
Just put some school of americas links in comments. New some american catholics 20 years ago that used to travel to south america to basically be human shields for union lrganozers and indigenous folks. The cia's impact was so so so evil.
I think it really is arguably one of the best countries with the most opportunities for everyone. But unfortunately no country had become a super power without doing done really dark stuff. The difference is that we're still free enough to openly discuss it, for now. Still, this was an absolute tragedy not to be understated.
@@DauntlessX23I'll agree with you on that too. My parents came to the US from Mexico because they saw an opportunity for us (my siblings and I) to succeed, where in Mexico they didn't.
he starts gooning at 3:23
Any other TH-camr saying they’re the most shadiest company in American history “oh, yeah but Nestle or a few others are probably worse”
When Wendigoon says it “oh… oh no… oh no no no…”
Nestle isn't American, but yeah, they're pretty bad. Coca Cola and Shell Oil both made extensive use of death squads in South America and Africa, respectively.
There's still BlackRock
"Todaywe'regonnatalkabout..."
Nestle's bad but there have been wayyy worse companies
I can’t believe wendigoon pushed through his banana allergy and died from radiation poisoning after eating ten million bananas in under 10 seconds.
Ah, yes. The _RADIATION_ killed him.
Thank you for talking about Chiquita and it’s entire history. It is rarely talked about, but should be recognized, considering how many lives it affected and continues to affect.
I'm Colombian and growing up they taught us about this in school we called it the banana wars