That Time a Banana Company Hired Paramilitary Death Squads

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  • @frozenburrito2.087
    @frozenburrito2.087 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +942

    I respect your courage to admit that you have a banana allergy, on a video about banana companies that hire hitmen

    • @nullpro7435
      @nullpro7435 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      “Wendigoon was found in his apartment today, with a banana shoved down his throat”

    • @DruidsDesire
      @DruidsDesire 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      Banana allergy, banana company, banana hitmen

  • @skylermuncy2218
    @skylermuncy2218 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13052

    " i dont even have to say "allegedly" they were found guilty in court" is a hard line

    • @riko0029
      @riko0029 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +349

      Right? He said allegedly and I thought "Nah, they did it". Spat my drink out when I heard him say they did it.

    • @SilharaTheChosen
      @SilharaTheChosen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +110

      I didn't expect him to just spit that bar at me, left me in stitches

    • @PainfullyAverageHandle
      @PainfullyAverageHandle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      “Unallegedly”

    • @mrmeval6982
      @mrmeval6982 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      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.

    • @katiemorison7969
      @katiemorison7969 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@PainfullyAverageHandle Allegen'tly

  • @9398aaron
    @9398aaron 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5317

    *Chiquita hired hit squad furiously scribbling*
    "ALLERGIC TO BANANAS"

    • @genericuser984
      @genericuser984 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

      "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"

    • @PrinceCustodian
      @PrinceCustodian 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      🎶"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" 🎶

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@PrinceCustodian 🤩

  • @matthewvanegas8336
    @matthewvanegas8336 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +794

    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.

    • @pistoljuice4062
      @pistoljuice4062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      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

    • @jonathanramos8414
      @jonathanramos8414 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah it's crazy that Guatamala and El Salvador even had civil wars

    • @camaleonhippie7567
      @camaleonhippie7567 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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

    • @jonathanramos8414
      @jonathanramos8414 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

    • @jonathanramos8414
      @jonathanramos8414 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@camaleonhippie7567 I don't think Costa Rica had guerrillas either am I right?

  • @TM2TL
    @TM2TL 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13259

    It's so sad that Wendigoon ate 50,000 bananas in 10 minutes and died from radioactive poisoning

    • @kuroneko334
      @kuroneko334 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +181

      Damn. Really?

    • @Freddabeast-lx6bd
      @Freddabeast-lx6bd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

      He will be missed

    • @thegoofygulagbros.8576
      @thegoofygulagbros.8576 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

      Remember if he dies, it wasnt**** from seversliding 😂😂

    • @selinatasha2076
      @selinatasha2076 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Ah, yes, THE RADIATION WILL KILL HIM

    • @GMacYT
      @GMacYT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +344

      Ah yes, the r a d i a t i o n is what killed him

  • @UC4AQUgrQ9EwVIGoF0w7xHXg
    @UC4AQUgrQ9EwVIGoF0w7xHXg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29767

    That's bananas.

    • @In-Fear
      @In-Fear 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Screw you

    • @whylifeis4
      @whylifeis4 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

      Real

    • @bigtimegoblin
      @bigtimegoblin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      That’s it?

    • @Giga_Joe
      @Giga_Joe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      You stole my comment buddy 😡😡😡

    • @nk__
      @nk__ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      So true

  • @RelativelyBest
    @RelativelyBest 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3907

    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.

    • @heavyhebrew
      @heavyhebrew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

      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.

    • @thomasriddle8877
      @thomasriddle8877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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
      @RyanONeal-zd6zu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      this joke is new and original, you are so smart and funny

    • @briankelly130
      @briankelly130 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      @@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.

    • @lordrichard64
      @lordrichard64 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@briankelly130 That wasn't funny at all.

  • @bigmanteddyhimself1913
    @bigmanteddyhimself1913 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +608

    What surprises me more than all the deaths and tragedies behind Chiquita is that Wendigoon just recently learned about it.

    • @ericquiabazza2608
      @ericquiabazza2608 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @QuantemDeconstructor
      @QuantemDeconstructor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      wait til he covers what Citi and France did to Haiti

    • @logancatron2239
      @logancatron2239 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

      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

    • @YakBat
      @YakBat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Seriously, that actually hurt a bit.

    • @agustinvenegas5238
      @agustinvenegas5238 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@logancatron2239 Uruguay I think hasn't had a multinational /foreign backed coup? I'm probably wrong though

  • @TheBestEverEverEver
    @TheBestEverEverEver 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7585

    “Our government would never!” Was already a hilarious statement but each day now it seems to be getting even worse.

    • @bionicle1611
      @bionicle1611 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      Hey, at least now you have one sane presidential candidate.

    • @Peaches-i2i
      @Peaches-i2i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      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.

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

      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.

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Peaches-i2i The bad guys were the oligarchs that controlled American society at the time.

    • @OWnIshiiTrolling
      @OWnIshiiTrolling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

      ​@@bionicle1611 Vermin Supreme?

  • @gameboytc3990
    @gameboytc3990 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3575

    as a sam o' nella academy graduate, i am so glad my favorite class is finally getting talked about more

    • @fun_police8011
      @fun_police8011 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

      When does enrollment start for the next class? I haven’t seen Professor Sam’s lectures on the class catalogue lately.

    • @kobblestonemc
      @kobblestonemc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      When did you graduate? I don’t think any of us have graduated yet

    • @troy3456789
      @troy3456789 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      Couldn't afford the syllabus

    • @muhiuddinkhan6810
      @muhiuddinkhan6810 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      as a fellow graduate, glad to see my people in these comments😌

    • @lcr9708
      @lcr9708 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      It’s great to see others mention him he came to my mind right away

  • @cameronparker2877
    @cameronparker2877 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5135

    babe wake up, the iceberg boy is going bananas

    • @RandomPerson-nd2ey
      @RandomPerson-nd2ey 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Underrated

    • @JimTheCurator
      @JimTheCurator 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I'M GONNA GO BANANAS

    • @_Unoffical_Norahhh_
      @_Unoffical_Norahhh_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      OH MY GOD

    • @orestis103
      @orestis103 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Iceberg boi shedding them LBS on that banana diet. Crazy transformation. I see you Wendy 💯

    • @joshuagraham6381
      @joshuagraham6381 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      sleep with one eye open lil buddy

  • @Krzztl
    @Krzztl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    Costa Rican here. I’m extremely surprised that it took them THAT long to find them guilty from funding paramilitary groups

    • @velvetlobster4731
      @velvetlobster4731 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Compatriota

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      they have the US military industrial complex and the holy USD behind them.

    • @danielav.u7825
      @danielav.u7825 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Legal

    • @jonasf1275
      @jonasf1275 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      all of columbia is a paramilitary

    • @dormantlime215
      @dormantlime215 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      As someone from the United States... I'm not surprised at all. And they certainly haven't been punished enough for the entire affair in general. I will tell you why this is not surprising: The US state department does not care. It is business as usual for the state and big businesses that line the pockets of the state to commit atrocities on this scale (and larger) in the name of money and US global power; and they pretty much exclusively back the far right elements in every single situation, because the left is more likely to interfere than to help.

  • @Llama_Warrior
    @Llama_Warrior 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +554

    Not wearing a Hawaiian shirt on your episode about a tropical fruit company is absolutely bananas.

    • @mikepj67
      @mikepj67 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      but is wearing banana republic shirt more appropriate

    • @Llama_Warrior
      @Llama_Warrior 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@mikepj67 yeah, I think so

    • @ArthurB26
      @ArthurB26 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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

    • @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1
      @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Im Colombian, I can say that, you don’t

    • @fordakacar
      @fordakacar 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1what

  • @scrawnyclownsnatch9656
    @scrawnyclownsnatch9656 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2489

    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.

    • @Foggyfrog-
      @Foggyfrog- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

      It was a suicide ofc

    • @dhonkeypunch
      @dhonkeypunch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      rest in peace Wendigoon. murdered by gorillas

    • @Simon-xi7lb
      @Simon-xi7lb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      "EVERY orifice" goes nuts 😭

    • @Strider0301
      @Strider0301 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      The gyatamalans

    • @Ryzard
      @Ryzard 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      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

  • @viderevero1338
    @viderevero1338 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2954

    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. 😞😞

    • @wilmeofficial
      @wilmeofficial 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      He got the gorilla fever😞

    • @LostLargeCats
      @LostLargeCats 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      I always have gorilla fever...

    • @dustrose8101
      @dustrose8101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      This close to sounding like an Urbanspook entry on Wendigoon.

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is one of the best ones I've read😂😂😂 Good one❤

    • @saltiestsiren
      @saltiestsiren 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      stuffed, huh?? 😏😏😏🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌

  • @Arcsut
    @Arcsut 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    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.

    • @jonathanramos8414
      @jonathanramos8414 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Didn't manual Noriega launder cocaine money for Pablo Escobar?

    • @FatallyParasocial
      @FatallyParasocial 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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

  • @InternetAnarchist
    @InternetAnarchist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9269

    “I worked for a banana company, they funded death squads.”

    • @RichardBaran
      @RichardBaran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Love your work!

    • @Garrry2121
      @Garrry2121 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      That's bananas 🍌

    • @MaddyCoppolo
      @MaddyCoppolo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Omg great comment 😭😭

    • @catlover5855-f7j
      @catlover5855-f7j 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      When's your next penguinz0 video lol

    • @shrekhoodieguy5449
      @shrekhoodieguy5449 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      ​@@Garrry2121"what if I just copy the top comment to get meaningless likes on youtube"

  • @daniluna2702
    @daniluna2702 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +672

    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

    • @eyesofthecervino3366
      @eyesofthecervino3366 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'm so sorry. Glad the word is finally getting out.

    • @KenzoDNogueraGomez
      @KenzoDNogueraGomez 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      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

    • @daniluna2702
      @daniluna2702 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@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

  • @ninaosorio268
    @ninaosorio268 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +629

    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
      @20chocsaday 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Sometimes a country is only remembered for the excesses of a few.

    • @liberpolo5540
      @liberpolo5540 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      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.

    • @laia32
      @laia32 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@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

    • @Bam_1776
      @Bam_1776 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Thank god that it's being remembered. These companies would do ANYTHING to have us forget.

    • @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1
      @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

  • @ScaryFoot
    @ScaryFoot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +152

    When you ask the minions who they worked for in the cold war:

  • @kyu2o337
    @kyu2o337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1145

    The juxtaposition of laws being passed to protect people from slipping on banana peels and hiring death squads is wild, lol.

    • @warren1078
      @warren1078 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Went from a silly little factoid to dark, real fast

    • @eyesofthecervino3366
      @eyesofthecervino3366 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      It's like a venn diagram between "we live in the bad timeline" and "we live in an actual cartoon."

    • @ZiddersRooFurry
      @ZiddersRooFurry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@eyesofthecervino3366 Our reality was dark Toon Town all along.

    • @patricklewis9787
      @patricklewis9787 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tbf they were different chains of authority but yeah it is insane nonetheless

  • @scantyoutube5649
    @scantyoutube5649 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4678

    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.

    • @michaelpalmatier3256
      @michaelpalmatier3256 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +246

      37.5 bc one of the guns jammed bc it was a M16 from Springfield Armory💀

    • @Savior_of_the_union
      @Savior_of_the_union 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      ​@@michaelpalmatier3256 bro💀💀💀💀

    • @Jiydiyon
      @Jiydiyon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@michaelpalmatier3256I remember that video

    • @chasemiller3712
      @chasemiller3712 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      And with a banana in his mouth.

    • @JohnGardnerAlhadis
      @JohnGardnerAlhadis 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Big Banana is watching you.

  • @kevinerikson3118
    @kevinerikson3118 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2093

    Wendi: I have a banana allergy
    Chiquitas: *strokes chin*

    • @Randomlabomoty
      @Randomlabomoty 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      NOOOOOO

    • @Rahnonymous
      @Rahnonymous 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      Reminder, Wendigoon is happy and doesn't want to roblox oof himself

    • @erichzannbusoumuzan
      @erichzannbusoumuzan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      Eisenhower: * rises from the grave * COMMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!

    • @allmyfriendsaredead3107
      @allmyfriendsaredead3107 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      *"What do you mean by that?"*

    • @nicknevco215
      @nicknevco215 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That not wrong it just a tic some people do

  • @Darasilverdragon
    @Darasilverdragon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    "I hope the world doesn't hurt you" is the northern equivalent of "Bless your heart"

  • @Noredlac_
    @Noredlac_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +897

    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

    • @positivevibesveda
      @positivevibesveda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      that’s the funniest info that could come out of this story

    • @fentanylfrog8403
      @fentanylfrog8403 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Goofy ahh crime

    • @Noredlac_
      @Noredlac_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@positivevibesveda Look for the article “When New Yorkers Were Menaced by Banana Peels” on Atlas Obscura

    • @l1z4rd67
      @l1z4rd67 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      gonna start doing this in mario kart actually

    • @Farmehsutehcals
      @Farmehsutehcals 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I wonder if, that is why its a thing in mario kart.

  • @jacobhesington6725
    @jacobhesington6725 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1522

    *banana company mascots surround you* “Peel em, boys.”

    • @ambermoon6004
      @ambermoon6004 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      "but. I dont like this one. It's got a bruise."

    • @leosanchez7997
      @leosanchez7997 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@jacobhesington6725 peel off your skin

    • @Eggzrgoood
      @Eggzrgoood 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ambermoon6004
      I don’t like this one, it’s stinky.

    • @Eggzrgoood
      @Eggzrgoood 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@leosanchez7997
      This isn’t even a banana, but I guess you can peel an orange.

    • @leosanchez7997
      @leosanchez7997 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Eggzrgoood nah peel off your skin

  • @mun5373
    @mun5373 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +743

    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!

    • @akkuma8689
      @akkuma8689 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      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....

    • @pedroescalona3842
      @pedroescalona3842 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@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.

    • @elderscrolls8442
      @elderscrolls8442 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      dam..

    • @Ivanna-rr6vh
      @Ivanna-rr6vh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      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!!!

    • @dingus6317
      @dingus6317 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

  • @jack22206
    @jack22206 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    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.

  • @grizzlyadams8277
    @grizzlyadams8277 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +812

    Genuinely shocked that Wendigoon had never heard of the Banana Wars before this. That’s right up his alley.

    • @sou.1083
      @sou.1083 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      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

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@sou.1083 It used to be.... less bad. But yeah... they... only teach the parts of history they like.

    • @bandinamerica3035
      @bandinamerica3035 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sou.1083millions of us do know. The cia was evil.

    • @JohhnyJo-t1o
      @JohhnyJo-t1o 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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

    • @notthefbi7015
      @notthefbi7015 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      @@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.

  • @pianopride212
    @pianopride212 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +479

    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.

    • @HavianEla
      @HavianEla 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      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!

    • @OutsiderLabs
      @OutsiderLabs 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@HavianEla Spiderbites are actually responsible for fewer than ten deaths a year, they're easily treatable and rarely fatal in healthy adults

    • @avpman150
      @avpman150 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Jesus, is there a reason why they’re built on cliffs? Just seems so preventable.

    • @pianopride212
      @pianopride212 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@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.

    • @Idrinklight44
      @Idrinklight44 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It may also be getting sprayed by the pesticides that are used, pretty bad problem

  • @HonestDepression101
    @HonestDepression101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1116

    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.

    • @WatashiMachineFullCycle
      @WatashiMachineFullCycle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      This is the one I'm constantly thinking about.

    • @johnbeam6302
      @johnbeam6302 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      not to mention literally overwhelming them with numbers in their housing and financial markets, forcing them to leave native lands even to this day

    • @vidgamarr5126
      @vidgamarr5126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I thought they sold fruits not instruments.

    • @lorit4480
      @lorit4480 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Disney fruit company, you mean.

    • @ironwolf2173
      @ironwolf2173 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Didn't know this, great nugget of history

  • @snailtune
    @snailtune 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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 ❤

  • @burtpenguin
    @burtpenguin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +875

    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

    • @amv._yxor
      @amv._yxor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thought I was going insane that video is the video

    • @Emilianoo8
      @Emilianoo8 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Wait what ???

    • @commisaryarreck3974
      @commisaryarreck3974 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

    • @lofi219
      @lofi219 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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

  • @X-SPONGED
    @X-SPONGED 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1231

    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

    • @pieceofschmidtgamer
      @pieceofschmidtgamer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

      Fun Fact: That wasn't the only company town.

    • @pgg-i4c
      @pgg-i4c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      @@pieceofschmidtgamer oh gosh it was common

    • @tjrune3432
      @tjrune3432 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      @@pieceofschmidtgamer Doesn't Disney have a company town?

    • @lazyaz2750
      @lazyaz2750 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      a big matress company is building a company town in new zealand sometime soon

    • @PlazDreamweaver
      @PlazDreamweaver 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      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.

  • @jntproductions1
    @jntproductions1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +853

    Temu: We're the most evil company out there!
    Absolutely any banana company: hold my beer.

    • @Senth99
      @Senth99 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      Don't forget Nestle too

    • @reaperofsouls1306
      @reaperofsouls1306 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      dont you mean "hold my banana"?

    • @plagueday5395
      @plagueday5395 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Is Temu evil?
      I'm not defending them (I don't even like them), I genuinely don't know.

    • @m0in126
      @m0in126 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

    • @nikolalulov
      @nikolalulov 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@plagueday5395Ye, they are exploiting workers in China real hard

  • @PaperBoy570
    @PaperBoy570 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Describing the origin of the term Banana Republic, then remembering working there and waking up at 3am to unload shipments of clothing while my manager stood over me telling me I wasn't working fast enough is so wild

  • @rylack5608
    @rylack5608 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +541

    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!!!

    • @heehoopeanut420
      @heehoopeanut420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      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.

    • @ergerg-su2jr
      @ergerg-su2jr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wow that’s bananas

    • @tacticalmattfoley
      @tacticalmattfoley 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So, the cocaine trade isn't worse than this??? Ya, boy Pablo????

    • @chinchillageneral
      @chinchillageneral 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ain't y'all got a hippo problem because of a cocaine dealer

    • @rylack5608
      @rylack5608 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Indeed, they are being hunted 'till this day because they are considered a invasive species ​@@chinchillageneral

  • @grumbotron4597
    @grumbotron4597 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +436

    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.

    • @stevenarmstrong5364
      @stevenarmstrong5364 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      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.

    • @yeoldegunporn
      @yeoldegunporn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yea, I was surprised this wasn’t common knowledge.

    • @jasonnelson9141
      @jasonnelson9141 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@stevenarmstrong5364Culture shock, I suppose

    • @mani_icon3135
      @mani_icon3135 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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.

    • @Chris69
      @Chris69 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wtf TH-cam is copying TikTok they’re doing the blue text search thing

  • @juarsenal998
    @juarsenal998 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +491

    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)

    • @RAAM855
      @RAAM855 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      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

    • @erinmarieee23
      @erinmarieee23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      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.

    • @rudysmith1552
      @rudysmith1552 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@erinmarieee23 I wish we would double down.

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@rudysmith1552 .... on extrajudicial murder...?
      Never heard anyone go THAT mask-off before, but ok.

    • @XihoNekochan3
      @XihoNekochan3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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).

  • @SapphiSky
    @SapphiSky 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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

  • @mynamejeffxdddd7851
    @mynamejeffxdddd7851 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +294

    Banana republic naming their stuff after it is like if some brand of boots called their brand Holocaust Boots. Truly insane

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      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.

    • @BirdieBlrrrd
      @BirdieBlrrrd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      That’s how I feel about thanksgiving 😂

    • @TheSkateeee
      @TheSkateeee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Isn't that just Thursday boots? Its not thursday yet boy

    • @venicesgf
      @venicesgf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@BirdieBlrrrdexcept thanksgiving doesn’t mean anything bad

    • @reeeper43321
      @reeeper43321 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@venicesgfoh yes it does there’s a very dark past behind it

  • @beliasphyre3497
    @beliasphyre3497 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +345

    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.

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Gelato and Sorbet ahh treatment

    • @poil8351
      @poil8351 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      are you sure you haven't been watching blackadder recently.

    • @JoeNoshow27
      @JoeNoshow27 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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.

    • @SetariM
      @SetariM 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      rode*

    • @NickolaiPetrovitch
      @NickolaiPetrovitch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What o.o

  • @adriandeltell8177
    @adriandeltell8177 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +430

    That sam'o'nella vid is youtube history, they all are to be fair, but the comie screech is beyond hilarious

    • @perplxxd
      @perplxxd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      it sounded like cartman's pig squeal LOL

    • @Neil.Anblomi
      @Neil.Anblomi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not really

    • @plplplplplpl7336
      @plplplplplpl7336 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@Neil.Anblomiyes really

    • @saltiestsiren
      @saltiestsiren 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      it's my first time seeing it but it has rage comics energy and i'm here for it

  • @ihaveaDeathvvish
    @ihaveaDeathvvish 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    he starts gooning at 3:23

  • @37Kilo2
    @37Kilo2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +449

    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.

    • @seananon4893
      @seananon4893 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Bill Cooper was friends with him wasn't he?

    • @MrEZBaked
      @MrEZBaked 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      a great book for sure

    • @2Lab-q4f
      @2Lab-q4f 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      If Wendigoon hasn't read War is a racket He's slackiing

    • @tuckerbugeater
      @tuckerbugeater 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@2Lab-q4f anti capitalism propaganda.

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@seananon4893 Bill Cooper wasnt even born when Smedley Butler died.

  • @Indyofthedead
    @Indyofthedead 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +568

    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.

    • @deyoloco3110
      @deyoloco3110 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      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.

    • @rootin222
      @rootin222 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      @@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

    • @deyoloco3110
      @deyoloco3110 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

    • @john1701q
      @john1701q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deyoloco3110 A communist lines the pockets of himself and his family while letting the people suffer? What a shock.

    • @jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745
      @jirojhasuo2ndgrandcompany745 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@deyoloco3110 stop lying

  • @adolfocoy7516
    @adolfocoy7516 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +381

    The fact that Salmonella Academy pushed thus topic to the stratosphere will forever make me smile.

    • @kbeargaming3449
      @kbeargaming3449 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Its a shame hes not around to see where his work has gotten him.

    • @donniehamilton7797
      @donniehamilton7797 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      ​@@kbeargaming3449but he's posting vids again

    • @kbeargaming3449
      @kbeargaming3449 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@donniehamilton7797 2 in a year does not a regular upload schedule make.

    • @kawaiicake8038
      @kawaiicake8038 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kbeargaming3449*whispers* let us hope…

    • @defeatSpace
      @defeatSpace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kbeargaming3449 better than nothing

  • @FictionHubZA
    @FictionHubZA 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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.

  • @jcraftgaming76
    @jcraftgaming76 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    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.

  • @chrisr6503
    @chrisr6503 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

    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.

    • @evanpeacock6103
      @evanpeacock6103 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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.

    • @ianthompson2802
      @ianthompson2802 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@evanpeacock6103 thats really bad business for the kidnappers. Kinda whole point of the ransom is you trade money for the person.

  • @Hawkeye20
    @Hawkeye20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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.

  • @lauragonza847
    @lauragonza847 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +171

    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.

    • @213chewy
      @213chewy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fellow Guatemalan here and I agree

    • @MeanBeanComedy
      @MeanBeanComedy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Did Guatemala ever have a government that ever worked for its people?

    • @drippooh
      @drippooh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@MeanBeanComedy did you watch the video? They tried but the company & US replaced the president with a dictator

    • @lauragonza847
      @lauragonza847 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@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. :/

    • @lairdhaynes1986
      @lairdhaynes1986 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@MeanBeanComedyyes they did for a short time until the coup. Did you even watch the video?

  • @jakobgowen9402
    @jakobgowen9402 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +245

    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"

    • @malachiatkinson7245
      @malachiatkinson7245 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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

    • @zeta3341
      @zeta3341 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yoo I knew there'd be people who had watched Sam O Nella here 😂

    • @ImTheGuy
      @ImTheGuy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was like "Took them long enough."

    • @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1
      @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *alt-right (in 2020’s language)

  • @funkycypress2277
    @funkycypress2277 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +222

    It feels so weird not seeing him in a tropical shirt

    • @captainleonox3818
      @captainleonox3818 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I legit though he was wearing an orange jumpsuit until he mentioned it being a shirt from Banana Republic

    • @seananon4893
      @seananon4893 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Im at the very start of the video, I KNEW something was weird about him. LOL

    • @KäptnKrückschwank
      @KäptnKrückschwank 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In the last video, he even wore a BLACK T-SHIRT
      (… I know, it‘s his own merch)

  • @rodrigoorozco493
    @rodrigoorozco493 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    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.

  • @MrR2TheZ
    @MrR2TheZ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    The fact that they have The Minions on chiquita banana stickers is much more appropriate than people think.

  • @Samsung-uq7ne
    @Samsung-uq7ne 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +851

    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.

    • @filmandfirearms
      @filmandfirearms 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      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

    • @BiggestCorvid
      @BiggestCorvid 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      Glad to hear. Look up what Coca Cola did to South American employees who tried to go on strike. A lot of people died.

    • @FSToxin74
      @FSToxin74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      something similar happened with ford, im sure goon covered it at somr point, "fordlandia" is the term if he hasnt

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      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.

    • @_HippieThugg_
      @_HippieThugg_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Always has been...

  • @yeeyeeyeeye
    @yeeyeeyeeye 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +563

    Nestlé: "We're the worst corporation, we starved over a million babies in Africa for profit."
    Chiquita: _boss music plays_

    • @autumnsierra2401
      @autumnsierra2401 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @crazyluigi6664
      @crazyluigi6664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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!

    • @jadonlimoges1830
      @jadonlimoges1830 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Holy fuck i love nestle now

    • @FTZPLTC
      @FTZPLTC 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      East India Company: Hold my pint

    • @soraxstacy1477
      @soraxstacy1477 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      British Spice Trade: Ho, so you're approaching me?

  • @WonderingAboutThat
    @WonderingAboutThat 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @Firebird_C6
    @Firebird_C6 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +938

    There’s gonna be girls at the party be cool.
    My goofy ass: Did you know a banana company hired death squads?

    • @wall7103
      @wall7103 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      The cool ones will already know

    • @x2Dubz
      @x2Dubz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you know the CIA faked vampire attacks to take over the Philippines?

    • @mudnarchist
      @mudnarchist 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      any girl worth your time will either already know or be super interested to learn

    • @therealno_one
      @therealno_one 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      Hit ‘em with the cheese tunnel lore (also on the wendigoon channel)

    • @jameskazd9951
      @jameskazd9951 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      If none of the girls are at all interested in that story, you ain't findin the "one" there my guy

  • @PalisadePeryton
    @PalisadePeryton 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Wendigoon wearing a Banana Republic shirt while talking about the original banana republic is the most Wendigoon thing he could've done

  • @jakemitchell1132
    @jakemitchell1132 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5086

    “COMMMIE COMMMIEE”
    “Yeah go ‘get em Dwight.”
    “REEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
    Edit: I didn’t think he would actually use Sam’s clip 😂

    • @Skinwalker_Gaming96
      @Skinwalker_Gaming96 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

      I was waiting for this comment

    • @bsfilmy8992
      @bsfilmy8992 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      Sammmmmm

    • @_deft0nes.
      @_deft0nes. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

      SAM O’ NELLA REFERENCE!?!??!?!!? 😦🚨‼️🚨🚨

    • @exudeku
      @exudeku 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +145

      "Holy shit, you actually did it"

    • @_RED_-
      @_RED_- 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +113

      WORLDSTAR

  • @sydneyslaughter7163
    @sydneyslaughter7163 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    9:34 that’s an insanely good metaphor! I am so keeping that in my pocket

  • @diogenes1334
    @diogenes1334 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    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

    • @Jelatio
      @Jelatio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      TL:DR, The banana boys own the sex house.

  • @ZanbonSen
    @ZanbonSen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +326

    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.

    • @Idrinklight44
      @Idrinklight44 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @nuclearocean
      @nuclearocean 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh no, no humanity was involved in that. Just a regular thing for a capitalist to do

    • @autumnsierra2401
      @autumnsierra2401 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Greece just instituted a 6 day work week countrywide, thanks America for sending the Greek economy into hell

    • @psilocybicacid7667
      @psilocybicacid7667 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Isn't enchecked capitalism great?

    • @dingus6317
      @dingus6317 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@autumnsierra2401 How did we do anything to Greece? Wouldn't the EU have more sway over Greece?

  • @velomeister
    @velomeister 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +357

    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.

    • @1blackice1
      @1blackice1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      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.

    • @jhufffamily7920
      @jhufffamily7920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      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

    • @joeeeyyyyyy
      @joeeeyyyyyy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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...

    • @evil993
      @evil993 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@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.

    • @MSinistrari
      @MSinistrari 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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.

  • @Deck777-w7h
    @Deck777-w7h 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In Spanish the word Chiquita refers to a small or tiny object, but its usually is used in the context of "thats cute" or "thats adorable" because of how small it is like a mouse, a sparrow or something like that. Pretty ironic ngl that the corporation's brand name was Chiquita

  • @NAAAAAIL
    @NAAAAAIL 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

    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.

    • @comradeurod9805
      @comradeurod9805 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      I love schizo posting

    • @RobertRectenwald-jw3bo
      @RobertRectenwald-jw3bo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      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.

    • @notahumanbeing6892
      @notahumanbeing6892 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@comradeurod9805tbh that is something wendigoon would do just to see if anyone notices

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@RobertRectenwald-jw3bo .-.. --- .-.. / .-.. --- --- -.- / .- - / - .... .. ... / -.. .-- . . -... -.-.--

    • @CringeGott
      @CringeGott 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ikr i kept seeing it

  • @FirithPanda
    @FirithPanda 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

    Wendigoon x Sam O'Nella was not the crossover I was expecting, but one I definitely needed.

    • @TheSutanian
      @TheSutanian 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      COOOOMIIIIIIEEEEEEE

  • @witheredaisy
    @witheredaisy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Colombian here, nuts that wendigoon is covering a huge part of our story that caused so much harm and pain. Now gonna watch.

  • @ericporto9603
    @ericporto9603 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I'm Colombian and growing up they taught us about this in school we called it the banana wars

  • @Moncherelouis
    @Moncherelouis 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +252

    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.

    • @mfaizsyahmi
      @mfaizsyahmi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Actual name of the song is Banana Boat. You can't make this up.

    • @delnite5825
      @delnite5825 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      where is the fun of this fact?

    • @rowannnnnnnnn
      @rowannnnnnnnn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@delnite5825¯\_(ツ)_/¯
      …i guess it’s a lot of fun if you’re a psychopath?

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @joz534
      @joz534 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@delnite5825 we make it fun so we don't cry.

  • @user-lb1op2gn9d
    @user-lb1op2gn9d 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +266

    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.

    • @whatwhyy
      @whatwhyy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      americans when migrants flee the countries americans destabilized: 🤯

    • @ShrexyGuy
      @ShrexyGuy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@whatwhyy so whole nations are to blame for a government?
      Good to know that, seeing the cartels you simp for

    • @firemarshal2629
      @firemarshal2629 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Cry

    • @NationalistHillbilly
      @NationalistHillbilly 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @PlazDreamweaver
      @PlazDreamweaver 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@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.

  • @MrSoup1
    @MrSoup1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    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
      @Polit_Burro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Eric Holder, Obama's appointee to the position of Attorney General, was the banana deathsquad lawyer.

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@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.

    • @Polit_Burro
      @Polit_Burro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@idontwantahandlethough LOL So "pissed" that they voted for him twice. That's some powerful "pissed"! LOL

    • @vulpes7079
      @vulpes7079 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Polit_Burroduh, appointing a guy isn't nearly as important as Obamacare and economic recovery

    • @TheHatManCole
      @TheHatManCole 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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?

  • @ianbuchan8548
    @ianbuchan8548 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    8:40
    "Not only were workers subjected to seven day work days,"
    That sounds about right.

  • @thesixfootsixexperience8781
    @thesixfootsixexperience8781 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    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

  • @Minor1623
    @Minor1623 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +148

    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

    • @Sing_A_Rebel_Song
      @Sing_A_Rebel_Song 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      That was my thought too 😭

    • @seananon4893
      @seananon4893 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I bet his drinking water starts tasting like banana's over the next few days.

  • @fitzcharles33
    @fitzcharles33 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +112

    My response to hearing the news wasn't "what?", but rather "oh again?"

  • @Jodie-G198
    @Jodie-G198 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @Spoonbringer
    @Spoonbringer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +226

    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.

  • @wunba
    @wunba 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    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!

    • @Mick-mi7zg
      @Mick-mi7zg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Minecraft TH-camr with 1m subs 😬

    • @Pickletron275
      @Pickletron275 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I rebuilt the iceberg 11 years later…

    • @Pickletron275
      @Pickletron275 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      997k wendigoons

    • @autumnmolick1333
      @autumnmolick1333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @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.

    • @SlinkyD
      @SlinkyD 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @westonmorgan1337
    @westonmorgan1337 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    I can’t believe wendigoon pushed through his banana allergy and died from radiation poisoning after eating ten million bananas in under 10 seconds.

    • @lmahu6627
      @lmahu6627 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ah, yes. The _RADIATION_ killed him.

  • @brandonc8504
    @brandonc8504 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As a Guat, it’s cathartic to hear Wendigoon explain the situation that plagued the mother country and its neighbors. My parents came here in search of a better life and respectfully earned it. It’s also surreal to hear that Guatemala’s political strife is being talked about by a major TH-camr. Ten years ago, they would have just called us poorer Mexicans without a second thought. Us Guats need to represent a better image of our people

  • @nebbywoo
    @nebbywoo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +205

    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.

    • @PorterMayhann
      @PorterMayhann 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what was her name

    • @crakkbone
      @crakkbone 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@PorterMayhannFaker McLiarson, she lived at 123 Fake st.

    • @PorterMayhann
      @PorterMayhann 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@crakkbonethought so 😂

    • @hannahbrown2728
      @hannahbrown2728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      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

    • @jasonrapp5209
      @jasonrapp5209 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hannahbrown27287 degrees from Kevin bacon proves it’s all about who you know entirely possible

  • @braydenpusser9471
    @braydenpusser9471 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +156

    "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
    @Neflhim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +511

    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.

    • @20chocsaday
      @20chocsaday 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Is it just a chemical cocktail made in stainless steel vats?

    • @Neflhim
      @Neflhim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      @@20chocsaday well, yes, but the flavor is based on the extinct variety.

    • @20chocsaday
      @20chocsaday 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@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.

    • @Neflhim
      @Neflhim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@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.

    • @20chocsaday
      @20chocsaday 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@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.

  • @skylermiles3336
    @skylermiles3336 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    your videos have cured my insomnia. like...any time you start to rant i just get so tired i end up falling asleep i minutes. i don;t mean that in a bad way either its very comforting. it's like that feeling when youre camping & you crawl into your tent & you fall asleep to the sounds of the last few people awake at the campfire talking.

  • @Jorgebs23
    @Jorgebs23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    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

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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.

  • @CallsignHades
    @CallsignHades 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    Wendigoon’s soft counter being bananas is somehow extremely on brand for him

    • @AmShibes
      @AmShibes 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      God had to hit him with those galactic patch note balances

  • @itmus_a9270
    @itmus_a9270 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +188

    This is a new episode of: "if wendigoon dies in a car crash in next few days, we know who did it"

    • @JimBob-jr5up
      @JimBob-jr5up 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean.... this is old news dude.

    • @Mr.Bimgus
      @Mr.Bimgus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's like when FriendlyJordie's house got firebombed. It could be anyone from the mafia to the federal government.

  • @MFLimited
    @MFLimited 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My grandparents have a creepy (78 speed) vinyl record from the 1940s with a woman calling herself “Chiquita banana“ singing on it in a, sort of, Brazilian accent. Some people say it was Carmen Miranda, others say it was a woman named Patti Clayton, other sources say it was Monica Lewis. It doesn’t say on the label.
    “ I am Chiquita banana and I’m here to say… I am the top banana”
    Ironically, Chiquita is a Spanish term of endearment for “very little girl“. But the company itself is Swiss/American. The image of Carmen Miranda, and Chiquita banana, is a Brazilian/Cuban sort of look. However, none of the women credited for singing it are either Cuban or Brazilian, even Carmen Miranda herself (the closest one can get to authenticity in this whole scene) was born in Portugal.
    This gives the banana commercial/vinyl record and even more surreal ambience of zero authenticity

  • @mythicfour
    @mythicfour 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +247

    If a fucking BANANA company was doing this shit, just imagine what a DEFENSE company is doing to protect its profit. *cough* Boeing *cough*

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The difference is that they're usually sanctioned by the government

    • @Polit_Burro
      @Polit_Burro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Wait til you find out what Coca Cola got up to in Colombia in 1999.....

    • @B_2_weak_sauce
      @B_2_weak_sauce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Polit_Burrowhat

    • @Polit_Burro
      @Polit_Burro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@B_2_weak_sauce Henry Ford used a deathsquad called the Black Legion, to attack unionized workers in Michigan.

    • @Polit_Burro
      @Polit_Burro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Another example is Coca Cola’s current behaviour in Colombia, where there are 20 Coca Cola bottling plants. The workers in these plants are affiliated to SINALTRAINAL, the national food and drinks workers union. On 22 July 1986, Hector Daniel Useche Beron, a Nestle worker and SINALTRAINAL leader was assassinated in Bugalagrande. From this day on, terror and violence have been the principle tool that the food and drink multinationals, supported by the Colombian state, have used to destroy the trade union.
      As a result of this terror, SINALTRAINAL have seen their membership figures plummet to 2,300. 14 of their leaders have been assassinated, 7 of which were Coca Cola workers, 3 of whom were murdered inside their workplaces. 48 more activists have been forcibly displaced by death threats, 2 have fled the country, 2 have been disappeared and many more have been imprisoned. Workplaces have been militarised, and in one plant, paramilitaries were allowed free access for a whole week, while they forced trade unionists to renounce their membership at gun point. Neither Coca Cola nor the Colombian authorities did anything."

  • @brian954
    @brian954 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    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.

  • @SomeHomesickAlien
    @SomeHomesickAlien 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +464

    You're telling me a giant corporation would fund a paramilitary death squad to protect their Golden goose bananas? Noo way 😱😱😱

    • @seananon4893
      @seananon4893 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No no no no no, that would never happen, and Hillary's kill list is made up mumbo jumbo.

    • @ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky
      @ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Gotta PROTECT what you trade.

    • @sneed.
      @sneed. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *corporation

    • @seananon4893
      @seananon4893 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sneed. You forgot the "The" infront of that.

    • @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1
      @Oh_DeER_1_1o1_1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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 :(

  • @emanekaf145
    @emanekaf145 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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!

  • @romelinmaldonado7593
    @romelinmaldonado7593 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    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

    • @aby110
      @aby110 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No country has done more crimes in Latin America than the US

    • @simmerslodraw
      @simmerslodraw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @DauntlessX23
      @DauntlessX23 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @valutaatoaofunknownelement197
      @valutaatoaofunknownelement197 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@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.

  • @thesentinelchurch9374
    @thesentinelchurch9374 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +211

    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…”

    • @AliceBowie
      @AliceBowie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

    • @Yourmom-fd2rv
      @Yourmom-fd2rv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's still BlackRock

    • @Oi1Suzy
      @Oi1Suzy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      "Todaywe'regonnatalkabout..."

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nestle's bad but there have been wayyy worse companies

  • @davidmcken
    @davidmcken 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    22:59 - Sadly every time I see an American president actually apologize for some past transgression there seems to be a sizable group calling them weak (trying to stay somewhat civil, I've seen it called much worse)... So as nice a gesture as it might be, I can see many seeing the apologies as hollow.

  • @its_me_tg7120
    @its_me_tg7120 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Him talking about cartels and guns for hire immediately made me think about Chalino Sanchez reading that note before performing for the last time

  • @coldandafraid
    @coldandafraid 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +244

    Only an international megacorp would pay almost 2 million dollars to a death squad in order to enforce dirt-poor wages over just paying better wages

    • @heavyhebrew
      @heavyhebrew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

      they spent more than the wages would have cost, that isn't greed, that is a commitment

    • @angrybabushka
      @angrybabushka 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      They'll do anything except pay their workers fairly. Even if it costs more, for them, it's about maintaining the "we do what we want and nothing can stop us" reputation. So fucked up

    • @cabnbeeschurgr
      @cabnbeeschurgr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@angrybabushkathis is why you start your own company and make your own pmc and then go to war to liberate the workers

    • @shacuras8201
      @shacuras8201 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      This math isn't mathing. They have to pay the better wages forever, at some point it will become more expensive than making a one time payment hiring a death squad

    • @gymbmymb3465
      @gymbmymb3465 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@cabnbeeschurgr which is also why you should pay attention or brush up on your highschool chemistry, notice the geneva convention was no where to be seen in this story