Topic > United Fruit Company Poetry Analysis - 1003

Several entries in Genius.com suggest that these companies and "The Fruit Company" all have similar inhuman connections to Central America, but I think otherwise. According to my research, the company “Anaconda” is the only one with direct and inhumane activities, the company once owned mines in Mexico and Chile, it was the largest mining company before the collapse, the first reason is environmental pollution : mines generate contaminated water during processing of raw ore, Anaconda discharged this water into the local river; the second reason is that they use the tool of military coup to protect the company's local interests: in 1971, the new president of Chile wants to take back the mines under the control of Anaconda, and then there is a military coup , the new military government agreed to pay millions to the company for its “expropriated mines,” which demonstrates the relationship between the company and that coup. Ford Motors generally has a good reputation, but founder Henry Ford himself is known for Nazi sympathies, so the name here perhaps refers to pro-war attitudes or a similar idea. As for Coca-Cola, I can't find any connection, perhaps the name here fits the previous lines, "the Jehovah divided the earth", as Coca-Cola is apparently a huge