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May 5, 2024 · The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?
Here were all the trappings of America’s involvement in irregular conflict throughout its history: occupation and nation-building, jungles and mountains, elusive and sometimes charismatic rebels, atrocities, and bitter controversy back in the United States.
- Russell Crandall
- 2014
Banana Wars is a history of the Americas told through the cultural, political, economic, and agricultural processes that brought bananas from the forests of Latin America and the Caribbean to the breakfast tables of the United States and Europe.
The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.
BLUF: The First Banana Wars were a series of police actions and interventions by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean following the Spanish–American War in 1899. The U.S. Marine Corps most often carried out these military intrusions.
Aug 1, 1984 · Lester Langley’s purpose in The Banana Wars is to trace the major United States military and fiscal interventions into Cuba, Mexico, the two republics of Española, and portions of Central America—really Nicaragua—in the years from the Platt Amendment to the Good Neighbor.
From wars for independence and the end of slavery to natural disasters, the colonies or former colonies struggled to prop up their fledgling countries as well as their associated European economies. One disaster spread fear greater than that of the race wars and that was the eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8th, 1902.
