Guatemala 2009

This class was really interesting because we learned a lot about America's influence in Latin America, specifically Guatemala. The United Fruit Company/Chiquita Banana essentially used Guatemala as a banana market, and and in order to ensure a need for a banana market in America, they inundated Americans with positive images of bananas to increase sales. A singing, dancing Chiquita banana, modeled after Carmen Miranda, became the symbol for the United Fruit Company.