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The Banana: A Tragic History Hiding in Plain Sight

There was a plantation strike in a town in Colombia. Around 12 o’clock, more than 3,000 people workers, women, children, had spilled out into the open space in front of the station and were pressing into the neighboring streets, which the army had closed off with rows of machine guns. The crowd remained in the [...]