Banana companies are hardly covered ever in the US, Canada, etc, but essentially banana companies are murderous, cheating, powerful groups in these countries. I once looked into it but I’ve forgotten almost all details.
The short version is, bananas are a profitable fruit with a very limited region where they will grow. Therefore, banana companies would set up exclusive grow rights on bananas for entire countries, and demand large chunks of land to do so. Locals essentially had no choice but to agree because these companies had military backing. However, since there were multiple companies and they all had military backing, waring betaeen companies for the countries in the countries still happened. And locals did sometimes try to fight off the companies forces as well, occasionally having enough of an impact to change control from one company to another, or even pressure agreements which were more favorable to locals with the company in question.
The history guy does a good job of giving a basic overview if anyone is interested. He also speaks more on the history of the banana in general. It's on YouTube, and /h8vTt9Y1mkQ to the end if the url after the part that is always the same for every video.
The history guy does a good job of giving a basic overview if anyone is interested. He also speaks more on the history of the banana in general. It's on YouTube, and /h8vTt9Y1mkQ to the end if the url after the part that is always the same for every video.