The Bird & The Bear - Session 92 - "Operation Paperbird: Four Peace in the Palms"

Dimes In The Dozen

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, bring you the final installment of their 4-part CIA deep dive series … In part 4, our hosts discuss the 1954 Coup in Guatemala, it’s connection to United Fruit Company, and how the CIA was involved … Content cited in this session: “The CIA’s Secret Genocide” by Rare Earth on YouTube, “How the US Stole Central America (With Bananas) by Johnny Harris on YouTube, “How CIA overthrew Guatemala’s elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)” by Geopolitical Economy Report on YouTube, and “Guatemala Coup Fails | Marco Fonseca | TMR” by The Majority Report on YouTube … Let’s sort through it together!

(0:00) - Introduction - “I am not saying, factually, that c**aine was involved in most of the CIA’s decision around this time, but…”

(6:43) - Guatemala’s social hierarchy in the 19th century - “They’re free, but they’re not f**kin free.”

(8:59) - United Fruit Company takes control of Guatemala - “Man did not have a marketing team … No PR relations.”

(15:12) - The Guatemalan spring and the 1954 coup - “Hitler was the GOAT … I’m the Hitler of Guatemala … What’s good?”

(19:37) - Some banana facts - “The dude who ran the camp across from us, the bondage camp, that was called The Spank Bank … His name was Big Mike.”

(24:25) - Wages for Untied Fruit Company laborers - “You just lose your job if you’re ever off the line for more than 30 seconds.”

(28:19) - A tangent into FDR’s presidency - “Tippin’ the hat … Ticklin’ the balls.”

(35:26) - The United Fruit Company’s violent history - “That’s no better than a banana republic … Our crop is stocks.”

(41:17) - Panama Disease and the rise of the Cavendish - “Also, very American that within a matter of like, 60 years we’ve absolutely gutted a destroyed a natural resource.”

(47:55) - Chiquita executives funding Colombian militants - “How do you get off calling yourself the United Fruit Company, when all you f**k with is bananas?”

(53:41) - The results of Guatemala’s most recent presidential election - “But sometimes you kind of have to do a positive thing so that you can keep doing negative things.”

(1:01:23) - How the United States creates the immigration crisis - “Like, there’s f**king avocado cartels now.”

(1:07:25) - Getting mad at capitalism for almost 10 minutes - “Compete or die … Compete or suffer … There is no simple life.”

(1:16:58) - Outro - “Now we got the worst kind of herpes.”

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