Banana Wars - US Marines Occupy Cuba, Haiti & Dominican Republic (Documentary)
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- Following the Spanish-American War, the United States foreign policy, under the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, intervened in several countries in Central America and the Caribbean. The United States Marine Corps was usually the military arm of these involvements as was the case in Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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Bauduy, Jennifer, “The 1915 U.S. Invasion of Haiti: Examining a Treaty of Occupation” Social Education 79 (2015)
Castor, Suzy & Garafola, Lynn, “The American Occupation of Haiti (1915-34) and the Dominican Republic (1916-24)” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 15, No. 1/2, Caliban (Winter - Spring, 1974)
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Johnson, Jeannie L. The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars, (Washington D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2018)
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Presented by: Jesse Alexander
Written by: Mark Newton, Jesse Alexander
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Erm… Haiti is not half of the island of Hispaniola in terms of size (it makes up around 1/3 of the island).
@@prabaldeepsinghbedi1520 he is in World war 2
Thanks guys for another great video! Please do another on the Banana Wars in Central America. We want more bananas!
You have been liberated, please do not resist
I laughed so hard as an American.
Surprise freedom
@@kevinchapman2794 laughs in American
Freedom is the only way! All those who oppose freedom shall be unfreed in the name of freedom! Those who resist enough shall be freed from this mortal coil! Freedumb!
@@BenGrem917 Its the dream that we all share, it's the hope for tomorrow!
I'm sad that the Banana Wars wasn't just a very long food fight
this what we need to do with Putinstan today ....
Zuck
wherever I am, you follow
@@Adam.G.Trapper You are afraid even of North Korea. Putinstan and China are laughing at you.
@@saratov99 nobody here is afraid of the badly infected dogs like Muscovy , China or NR. you know 1917/1991 is coming ))
I’am Dominican and I’am glad you guys made this video on us love this video,and the channel
Viva Republica Dominicana...Siempre!
@@rpm1796 Si, Viva la Republica Dominicana!
What is a 3 hour work day and where can I get it? 😭
Mostly low paying minimum wage odd jobs nothing consistent.
Not in modern capitalism that's for sure.
@@akillermelon So every other Job in America😂
I've heard someone getting a job doing titrations for about 4 hours a day and with a very high salary (in the US). Apparently he got bored really quickly and quitted only after a year or so.
@@Vienna3080 those aren't odd jobs. A odd job is like going and mowing your neighbor's lawn for luke 15 bucks
Are you going to do a video on the banana wars in Central America? This video covered a very narrow scope of the US intervention in Latin America. It seems like you were saying that it was all about protecting US interests in the Panama Canal, and left out completely any mention of US business intervention and control of the economies of Central America. They would not have been called the banana wars without that.
seems the topic is very popular, so we could definitely do one one central America too. depends a bit on the visual archive situation.
Thanks 4 mentioning this.
smedley butler approves of this
I'm Honduran, my great grandparents told to my parents and uncles about the Honduran civil wars and the air raid to Tegucigalpa.
@@BH-gh6qm War is a Racket.
6:30: “Haitian leaders had been unreceptive to US diplomatic approaches.”
It was the US who refused to cooperate with Haiti. The US didn’t recognize Haitian independence until nearly 60 years after its revolution. The only relations the US was willing to establish with Haiti were either extremely favorable trade policies or military occupation.
Guess having a friendly french outpost was better than a tiny irrelevant nation while the US and Britain were in constant bickering.
They didn’t because they didn’t want to upset the south but they still work with some leaders
The US recognized the independence of Haiti shortly after the American Civil War broke out. The holdup was they were trying to avoid a fight with the Southern states. Once fighting broke out anyway, there was no reason to put it off anymore. There was sympathy for Haiti in the North prior to that, but it just wasn't worth the problems it would cause.
The Commie larper will educate
@@NA-xr4sn Ah yes, the french slave owning settlers. See how those two words make all the difference?
The Banana Wars perfectly demonstrate why the idea of American isolation was/is a total myth. The US never shied away from participating in international affairs, and when it came to protecting American interests in its purported sphere of influence, it was all too happy to interfere in foreign countries' affairs. Thank you for covering these events guys!
As far as I recall the whole concept of "Isolationism" was just a vehicle to attack those that were against American intervention against the axis in the 1930's. It wasn't used in American politics before that. It makes sense as the policies towards Latin America were much more like unilateralism as in "we do whatever we want and the European powers and local native governments can go suck an egg".
Well, and that they chose a "Dutch in Japan"/early East India Company corporate colonial model instead of a "civilizing the world" British Victorian model or a French "all our colonial subjects are citizens" model or a Spanish centralized hierarchy model.
Isolationism is just "we don't want to fight Britain's wars, just our own."
They were colonialist in the Americas, isolationist in Europe.
It’s actually American Exceptionalism, not Isolationism.
U.S.: "I swear this time it's just to protect the people. And we won't be coming back afterwards, we promise!"
This time the richest carribbean country in the world idiot
@@productivevision4538 ???
@@productivevision4538 i don't understand at all
High velocity freedom
@@vire559 I don't get it either
Man, this takes me back. I did my Senior Thesis in College on the American Occupation of Haiti.
Accusing the Germans of building a Submarine Base, Wall Street wanting control of their Banks and the Railroads, the effects on the NAACP and the 1920 Election, and craziest of all, Zombies becoming a part of American Pop Culture.
Yup.
And did we get it right according to college-you?
@@TheGreatWar College me enjoys this, and would like to remind you that the new Haitian Constitution made during American occupation had a very notable author/drafter, Assistant Naval Secretary and 1920 Vice Presidential Candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All countries with US styled constitutions are still in shambles. Anglos simply don't understand the world, I blame their bogus sense of superiority.
They claim they liberated my country, but I doubt it, since RAPING OUR WOMEN ISN'T LIBERATING!
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex why not the children and livestock to? 😂🤣😂
joking aside, what country you from, and do you think your people are better?
The lack of economic analysis and context is the "elephant in the room" for this presentation; sorry Jessie. Nothing about the United Fruit Company (Chiquita), Del Monte, or the Standard Fruit Company (later Dole) and their machinations throughout the Caribbean region, or their manipulations of US Federal politics or foreign policy. Big miss.
Agree, they barely hinted at sugar cane magnates .
$adly they have to pander to people who think that history is just pew pew stuff. Wars don't start in a void.
I mean, Jessie's sources argued that Haiti and the Dominican Republic were more of a strategic rather than economic interest. That definitely was not the case with Cuba as we got further into the 20th century for sure. Haiti isn't a country with a ton of wealth comparatively. There were a few hints at American corporate interests that he understated, as for example, anyone who has looked at colonial history knows that roads and rails are not schools and economic opportunities, but modes of extracting wealth and resources.
One thing that the mention of using Marine officers from the South made me realize...this was the exact era when the KKK was mainstream and the Supreme Court upheld and expanded a number of the Jim Crow laws. And, as he mentioned, even the liberal "nations for all" Wilson looked down on these countries as uncivilised, but instead of building schools, built militaries and roads.
@@lhpoetry 👌nice I like how you brought up more factors it's not just one thing but a factor of things leading up to that and the realization for Wilson to use officers from the south is interesting that's a government official officially acknowledging a mindset of a group or some known group influence to be the desired effect of the soldiers he would want that is crazy that should be blown up
Hi! I'm from the future and i just hopped over from exactly THAT episode that will be uploaded 2 months from where your comment is now^^
Yes exactly in parts of Haiti officers and soldiers wives came to live with them and hated the black residents of the island they actually instituted segregated clubs and bars on foreign soil
Also, the so called "Banana Wars" really began in 1902 with Theodore Roosevelt's use of American troops to intervene militarily in Honduras in 1903, in Guatemala (to support the United Fruit Company), in Venrezuela to regime change President Cipriano Castro in 1908, in Nicaragua to regime change the Jose Santos Zelaya in 1909, which later became an illegal occupation that lasted from 1912-1933.
Colombia also had the "masacre de las bananeras" (banana massacre) during a worker strike against the United Fruit Company's disregard of work legislation. The government stepped in against the Colombian workers, protecting the interests of the company from the US.
Book: "Bitter Fruit" available at either your library or in book stores.
United Fruit aka Chiquita today. Read the book "WAR IS A RACKET" by Author USMC General Smedley butler.
Yess Nicaragua still suffers until this day by all the havoc caused by the US not minding their own business & being imperialistic af
@@arislopes1924 Yes US wall street with names like goldman sachs.
It's an interesting experience being as US American, learning about world history, and constantly thinking "wait, we invaded that place in that year? When was anyone going to tell me this?"
Looking at the list of US military interventions through the years on Wikipedia is a worthwhile endeavor. Also bases...
The one that really shocked me though were maps of the US including The Philippines and Panama well into the 20th Century, and the Panama canal only being given to Panama in 1999.
Lol if the corporate media/CIA stenographers is where you get your news, don't hold your breath
You just didn’t take AP US History in Highschool.
there is no "US Americans". there's the Grand Orient of France, Grand Lodge of England, Supreme Council of America, and other brotherhoods, fighting agains the Houses of the Holy Roman Empire. exactly what you see in Star Wars.
Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Dominica and so on, are not "the Cubans". They are Lodges. That is the principle of what we call "US". they fight not against "Spain" but against the House of Bourbon cadet of House of Capet. remember the 1789 French Revolution? It was against the Bourbons
Deep Time Media. Do you really expect MSM to tell the American people what atrocities it's Government has committed in their names? It has been going on for 150 years yet the average American thinks that the US spreads the concepts of Freedom and Democracy to "lessor" nations.
These are the campaigns during which General Smedley Butler twice earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. These are also the campaigns that inspired him to write his anti-war classic 'War is a Racket'.
He was ahead of his time when he spoke TRUTH TO POWER!!!
You should next do an episode on the real “Banana Wars” in the “Banana Republics” of Central America fought on behalf of US banana growers and shippers.
I never learned about the banana wars or Haitian revolution in school. Nor do I ever remember seeing it on history books.
Aaaaand that's a part of the reason the US is the way it is.
I’m in high school right now and can assure you we learned about it, if only a very short time.
@@marklafleur6695 🤔 Could you said if you missed a day of school you could have miss it entirely?
I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in my high school textbook in the 90s, but only briefly.
The problem with covering things like the Banana Wars in high school or even a survey-level American History class in college is not simply whether they paint the USA in a negative light. There is simply a lot to cover and not enough time to cover a lot of it properly. In high school, the entirety of US history from Discovery to modern day is covered in a single year! Even in college at the survey level (freshman/sophomore classes everyone takes) it's covered in two classes. Usually large lecture classes with little chance for discussion.
@@saulstryver836 I think we spent 3 or 4 days learning about this topic.
Dominicans rushing into the enemy is a very common thing in all our previous wars, Most where done armed with machetes while riding horses. Worked great against the Haitian military as it took them long before reloading their muskets, this also caused panic on their lines which led to Haitian soldiers trying to flee only to then get shot by their own for treason. The Machete charges where also used against the Spanish troops in the Restoration War, It was so effective that one of Spain's military men Maximo Gomez later moved to Cuba and used the same tactic against the Spanish in the Cuban independence war ( yes he switched sides ). So YES Frederick Wise was correct, Dominicans had never faced a enemy armed with machineguns.
Also Id love to see a video of the Dominican independence war and restoration war.
Teddy Roosevelt himself used it in in the Caribbean as well, right?
i would love to see a video about that too because it is always short brief mention in history as a foot note but it was important as the 1916 US invasion
Yes I’d love to see the War about this Dr asked Haiti to occupy them and then changes their minds once France imposed a debt to remain free
@@kelzstackz4503 no no, not that one.
The one where the governor of Santo Domingo invited Haiti to take over without asking the rest of the country. Oh also lets not forget how haiti decided to bend over for daddy France and accept the debt instead of standing up and fighting for freedom.
After haiti bent over and tried to exploit the spanish side of the island as a way to pay said debt by enforcing "paid" forced labor where they tried to forced free people into working in plantations... all of this to pay the debt THEY agreed to pay the French. This obviously caused resentment and later caused 2/3 of the island separating after all the abuses and lack of management by part of the haitians.
Oh i also forgot , will you be shining shoes at the park ? my boots need to be shined.
@@kelzstackz4503 Oh ALSO after DR became independent France tried to charge us too for YOUR debt... DR's answer was "fk off im not paying anything" you know like haiti should have replied ?
Haiti is just a buck that loved to be broken by his massa
USMC Small Wars Manual was largely based on lessons learned during the Banana Wars.
Where can I get a copy?
@@TacticalMetalhead If you find out please let me know 👍
@@TacticalMetalhead Amazon is one source. There are also probably PDF copies online. Check Project Gutenberg.
@@TacticalMetalhead In a small bookstore
Always remember that these wars are not about U.S. interests, they are about the financial interests of a few well connected oligarchs.
and hence, U.S. interests, since oftentimes, even today, these corporate financial interests are embedded with the politicians and the government's foreign policy since that's what gives them access to foreign markets, resources, and labor to exploit in "uncooperative" countries under favorable conditions like tax breaks, nonexistent or unenforced labor laws, strike breaking and protecting corporate property with a heavily armed and ruthless police force and legal system, or being able to cheaply buy, exploit, and develop natural resources and land to profit from, usually at the expense of the people living there.
Know your real enemy they have no borders and it seems they are not loyal to any one country
Same soup different bowl
These corporations are pretty much nationalized in practice. So "U.S. interests" might as well be used.
And yet the US people benefit from these atrocities and do nothing to stop them as they continue into the modern day
From Smedley Butler, Major General USMC: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Just been reading his book: war is a racket
A very impressive record ! SWEET !!!
And...?
@@rogerodle8750 And it was about money. He killed people to make some fuckers rich.
In other words US foreign policy and military adventurism hasn't changed in the last 100 years.
The US has always been into military adventurism since it invaded the Ohio valley.
Yet the savages complain about alleged Russian influence in their elections.
@@Venezolano410 savages?
@@thatguyonline5208
Yes, savages.
@@Venezolano410 cry more
My Grandfather served in the US 11th Cavalry Regiment during the Cuban Occupation in the aftermath of the Spanish American War.
We don't care about your father
@@woke72 chill out you two
@@woke72 you cared enough to comment
Haitian history is very interesting, not many people really care about the Caribbean islands here sadly. Their multiple monarchies and unstable republics in the mid 19th century, and their history with various colonial powers (you could probably include the US as one of those along with Spain and France)
One of the most unique histories in the world...also one of the most painful to read...
The countries that care about Haiti ( Venezuela and Cuba) can't really do much to help.
Thanks A LOT for uncovering the archives of the Marines to produce such an interesting viewpoint ! Kudos !
American colonialism in the Western Hemisphere which converted the Caribbean into an American lake.
"Monroe Doctrine" baby! Gotta love it!
Honestly I wouldn't think of looking into the topic of the Banana Wars, but you present it so well I enjoyed it imensely (as other episodes of course).
thanks so much for covering this obscure topic, i wish there were more videos like this
amazing video, I've always wanted to learn about these wars and you're the first one to explain them
well... War is a Racket
Bananas too
Cynical Historian likes that.
Zuck
Sbout out to Dan Daly and Smedley Butler
War is a Racket
Great episode on an underappreciated topic. thanks for your work.
Zuck
Another fine episode. Thanks for the great work Jesse and company.
Great presentation. I learned so much from this.
And it's such a pleasant relief to hear a presenter who is able to pronounce Spanish, and in particular, French names correctly.
All this has to be lies, President Mister Nice Guy Wilson wouldn't do this after all he lectured the world about freedom and decency and the 14 Points.
Wilson was probably the worst bigot to ever occupy the White House
@@mikepette4422 I'm not qualified to judge between bigots so I can neither agree nor disagree with you.
Wilson was a massive racist even by the standards of his time. It wasn't hypocritical, just racist, all his talk about self determination was meant to be only for whites, non whites required leadership by whites in order to get some semblance of governance.
Yes he's the 19th. century Barry Obama.
@@votefraudjoe997 19th.?
Such a long history of intervention in this region and others. Wow. Great job.
i love watching these long videos, you're one of the few channels where i like long video
The Caribbean Wars I never got into details about. Thank you The Great War.
Banana wars? Sounds like an a-peel-ing topic
Be careful with those puns. It's a... slippery slope
It might be because I'm Puertorican but I like hearing about this part of history since it's only skimmed over in local education and resumed as "american intervention bad" and then skip over to cold war era Puerto Rico and the FALN (later Macheteros) which I kinda don't blame
I agree. I'm from the states and the most learn about this is basically a simple, American military invaded a list of random central American and Caribbean, unlawfully controlled them against the will of the populace, and then left. Nothing really about the details other than it was about Monroe Doctrine or fruit. This chapter of our history is usually just brushed aside for the more sensational World wars and cold war.
American intervention is bad.....te lo digo como puertorriqueño lmao
@@Milk-jy1kn lmao entiendo pero eso esta demasiado resumido men 😂😂
@@degamispoudegamis Well that's true
Fantastic and informative series of important political conflicts/wars from the early 20th century. I hope you will do an episode on the Sino-Tibetan border war of 1917-18.
You can also mention more about United Fruits Company.
200 years later, and the Monroe Doctrine has been extended to anywhere the US has economic interests...
Season 2 of the podcast “Blowback” is about the Cuban Revolution, and it’s releasing episodes weekly. I def recommend it for anyone interested in this topic - it’s well-researched & incredibly insightful.
As the name suggests, it’s a show that focuses on the intended/ unintended consequences of military actions (the 1st season was about American involvement in Iraq going back into the last century).
Fantastic Videographic Production! Thank you Sir.
those colorized photographs are fascinating!
Finally a more reputable source on a region and history commonly neglected.
2:07 The U.S.A. didn't just annex CUBA, but they did just annex the Philippines, which involved fighting a 3-year-long war to defeat the Philippine Republic, which had declared independence from Spain just like the Republic of Cuba.
Really love your work!
A very interesting segment, perhaps you and the staff may want to look at the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935).
Great topic. Would love for you to do an episode regarding Puerto Rico.
Thank you for more great history!
Two Medals of Honor recipient who served during the Banana wars, Marine General Smetley Butler wrote a book that he called, "War is a racket."
And people wonder why the Americans are disliked as a nation in some parts of the world? And yes, the English/British, French, Belgians, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese ain't any different.
@@degamispoudegamis Glorified by liberals? What are you smoking? Liberals literally love tearing down America any chance they get.
@@petebondurant58 in spanish countries liberal means liberalist (right-patriotic liberal)
Of course, only third world countries has been glorious... xD
Don't forget the Dutch, the Germans, and the Japanese. There's plenty of hatred to go around.
@goldenstate2002 Liberals in other nations (Canada etc...) aren't very fond of the United States either.
In the summer of 1975 I was introduced to this activity in Marine Corps History and Traditions. Intervention is no new thing for the USA.
Excellent video. It actually gives a nuanced view, including the positives of (and Cuban locals' occasional desires for) temporary US intervention.
The first part about Cuba's political instability and violence actually reminds me a bit about Afghanistan nowadays.
That's Afghanistan, period. What's nowadays have to do with it?
@@floydvaughn836 true but the ebb and flow of US involvement post-9/11
You mean how the US financed terrorists and extremists in Afganistan to fight the Saur Revolution and later came back in to fight said terrorists they financed and now after they withdrawled are fighting another terrorist group with the help of the terrorist group they financed but then were fighting? US foreign policy is basically "When you fund a terrorist group to get rid of a terrorist group you funded to get rid of a terrorist group you funded to get rid of a terrorist group you funded..."
" ... economics undoubtedly played a large role in the " Banana Wars " , and the U.S. frequently sought Financial Domination ; but even though money was important , it was not necessarily the end goal for American policy makers . Financial control instead , served to underpin Geopolitical goals and was seen as necessary for ' Future Democracy '... "
Herein lies the essential contradiction of U.S. policy in the Caribbean , and in Latin America as a whole.
It is not possible to hold on to the countries' finances , on the one hand , and then claim that you want to have ' free democratic elections '. Local populations see you as an occupying power , as well as a ' bully '.
The direct legacy of the " Banana Wars " came in the form of that region's dictatorships : Castro ; Duvalier and Trujillo.
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
I hope this is a start on this part of history. I didn't know anything about this until I watched the Salmonella guy's video about it. It'd be cool if someone a little more professional made some videos about it like you guys.
it seems like a topic y'all are interested in, so definitely more on the menu
Sam o bella rocks!!!!!
Wonderful documentary. Thank you from England
Well done to the Great War team!
dang i had no idea haiti's occupation lasted so long
Very informative. I'd seen other examples of the Monroe Doctrine but never anything on the nations on Hispaniola
you have to admit, jessie's pronunciations are always on point.
"Strategic Islands"
US: *I'MMA GIVE YOU FREEDOM.*
Haiti: But we are already free....
Philippines: First time???
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Dang you're everywhere
cringe
Great Video!
Zuck
YES thank you AND 3 hour work days keep fighting sharing and thanks!
three hour work days? where do I sign up
A proud tradition of corporate warfare
too nice history video with clear explaining of events which they were too complex and large amounts from Cuba to Hiati Through Spaniola island
My grandfather who passed away 2003 at age 92 told me just how cruel the Americans treated them in Puerto Rico, systematic corruption, rape, murder....I just have to thank America for liberation that continues at the barrel of the gun.....
I hope this channel mentions the post war situation in Puerto Rico!
This brought me back to freshman highschool when my Social Studies teacher taught us Globalization
Zuck
Cuba: 3 hours of work. 21 hours of passion!
Great video
I’ve been seeing a rise in talking about the Banana wars and that’s great. It could just be that the channels I watch have discussed it but first it was Knowing Better and then Talkernate History now this. It’s cool that more people are learning about it.
Damn it
@@ShubhamMishrabro yeah?
@@dwayne1625 no your name was funny that's why i sort tried to make it joke like damn it
Thanks for this history. I've been reading a lot about Vietnam war and 1 takeaway was yet another invasion by the U.S. of the Dominican Republic in 1965 when Johnson escalated the actions in Vietnam. Man, we never learn.
Like learning this would make a difference
Thanks for this little known bit of History
Very informative.
>there is allegations of voter fraud
>the US military is sent in
sounds oddly familiar
Very familiar
Juan Guaido say hold my beer..😂
Even back then, Usa loved liberating countries
it's that voter fraud man LOL
It was like that since 1871
@@Charles-hy6gp what happened in 1871 ?
@@cgt3704 DC Organic Act which corporations took over the governments
@@Charles-hy6gp ????
I don't know. I wasn't there at that time. With that said, the pictures of the time show a very much more prosperous areas than what the Caribbean has turned into now. Now there is madness that has descended into chaos in all parts.
This blew my mind first time I heard about this 🤯
Cuba did not ask for U.S. intervention. The Cubans had driven the Spanish from two thirds of the island. The U.S. intervened to protect its interests and profits on the island.
Americans: We're sending troops to bring democracy and stability to this country
Also Americans: Introduces literal slavery
Much like present times
I'm fairly certain that slavery pre-existed the United States government.
@@petebondurant58 the US was wrong to invade other countries.
@@petebondurant58 Yes. Haiti had the densest slave population in the world, until a successful slave revolt led to it's abolishment and independence. That the US would try to bring back something so traumatic and hated as slavery shows their complete lack of understanding of Haitian society and mindset.
@@powerfighter2554 It was also wrong for the world not stop them.
I recommend the board game Cuba Libre by GMT games to explore more recent history.
Thank you.
A 3 hour work day?! Christ, no wonder the Spanish empire fell apart...
Working more than 3h per day makes people into mindless idiots, fact.
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex So, the Spanish must be unmitigated geniuses then, eh?
So let’s get together - relax- & end US Empire!
@@andredeketeleastutecomplex or maybe, just maybe, you are just *lazy*
Dude still to this day in some Hispanics country people go home by 12pm and come back to work at 2pm. 2 hours break 😂
For a brief moment, I thought this is The Cold War channel.
Thanks that was great
Lester D Langley is a fantastic author. I highly recommend reading him on this subject
First we had the Watermelon War and now we have the Banana Wars. One more and we have a fruity trifecta.
If you want to continue the food theme, Ukraine had an Orange Revolution. Or for oddly named Central American conflicts, there was the Football War.
caribbean history is criminally underrated
I don't know for your spanish pronunciation but your french one is perfect!
I liked thi channel...great material
23:23 Can't have democracy without dictatorship
The Military protects the interests of Capital and the State.
@ 7:26. 'it was this type of chaos that was making it possible for German influence..." Why didn't you mention the US's role in creating that chaos in Haiti?
Wow! Very impressive.
Just wonder about the “What if” of Cuba being a U.S. state.
Florida just one bit more Hispanic 😂
can you talk about the U.S. occupation of the Philippines and Hawaii please? many Pacific islands were given as territories to the U.S. after the Spanish American War of 1898
Thanks to "THE THIEVING RACISTS" OF THE U.S. MILITARY AND THE INDUSTRIALISTS.