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Apr 5, 2021 · Cozy with Jorge Ubico, Guatemala’s president-dictator, United Fruit faced little resistance over its widespread bribes, meager wages, and labor abuses. Wikimedia Commons Jorge Ubico, the former president of Guatemala, in 1931. But in June 1944, the tides seemed to shift.
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He continued his predecessors' policies of giving massive concessions to the United Fruit Company and wealthy landowners, as well as supporting their harsh labor practices. Ubico has been described as "one of the most oppressive tyrants Guatemala has ever known" who compared himself to Adolf Hitler.
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Ubico was also a friend to American businesses in Guatemala. In particular he maintained amicable relations with the United Fruit Company, honoring contracts made with the company during the previous 30 years, while allowing the company to bow out of a contractual obligation to build a Pacific coast port.
From 1898 to 1920, President Manuel Estrada Cabrera invited the United Fruit Company to build Guatemala’s infrastructure: railroads, telegraph lines, and ports. General Jorge Ubico, in office from 1933 to 1944, continued to be subservient toward the company and to repress civil society.
Mar 2, 2008 · The United Fruit Company (UFCO) was an American company in the business of bananas, and they even got the United States government to promote bananas in the diet of Americans. Under dictator Jorge Ubico, Guatemala became known to be a “banana republic,” a derogatory name for a poor, developing country that relies on one export for their ...
Ubico allied himself with the U.S. and threw in a great deal of support for the United Fruit Company. He was forced to resign after a general strike. He was not the last tyrannical President that the US would prop-up or support as part of the anti-communist program.
The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the softening of exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government.
