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EPISODE · Nov 19, 2017 · 53 MIN

097 The Banana Wars I

from The History of the Twentieth Century

By the beginning of the twentieth century, the USA was the major market for Central American coffee, cotton, sugar, and especially bananas, leading to US investment in the region, leading in turn to US involvement in Central American affairs.

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