ANT 3540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: United Fruit Company, North American Free Trade Agreement, Operation Gatekeeper
25 Oct 2018
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9a: watch film harvest of empire based on book by juan gonzalez. Immigration: the most pressing domestic issue of our time , says the reporter. Gonzalez is a reporter covering latin american politics and immigration. Major migrations to the us come from countries that the united states once dominated. Puerto rico, cuba, philippines- prizes of war to the us. Puerto ricans seem to have been given citizenships in order to be drafted into wwi. Kids were punished for speaking spanish in school in pr. Harry truman was the first president to acknowledge what was going wrong with pr. 2003- more puerto ricans in the mainland than on the island. 1954 guatemala - beginning of a horribly negative sentiment towards latin america in us politics. United fruit company owned a gross amount of land in guatemala. The us govt had ties to the ufc, which incentivized helping overthrow the leftist government using the cia.
