(November 7, 2014 at 2:26 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 7, 2014 at 2:18 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: That was certainly the fallout. Of course, throughout the 20s and 30s we weren't shy about throwing the Marines at any Caribbean government that tried to tax the plantation-owners.
Yeah, you're right of course. I mixed that up with what's called the banana wars, which was a series of small conflicts in the interest of fruit companies.
Oh, I wasn't trying to correct you. There was pressure from both the big fruit companies and the Hearst empire, each for their own business reasons, to initiate that war.
