The Bird & The Bear - Session 92 - "Operation Paperbird: Four Peace in the Palms"

Published: June 6, 2024, 3 p.m.

On this week\u2019s session of, The Bird & The Bear \u2026 Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, bring you the final installment of their 4-part CIA deep dive series \u2026 In part 4, our hosts discuss the 1954 Coup in Guatemala, it\u2019s connection to United Fruit Company, and how the CIA was involved \u2026 Content cited in this session: \u201cThe CIA\u2019s Secret Genocide\u201d by Rare Earth on YouTube, \u201cHow the US Stole Central America (With Bananas) by Johnny Harris on YouTube, \u201cHow CIA overthrew Guatemala\u2019s elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)\u201d by Geopolitical Economy Report on YouTube, and \u201cGuatemala Coup Fails | Marco Fonseca | TMR\u201d by The Majority Report on YouTube \u2026 Let\u2019s sort through it together!

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(0:00) - Introduction - \u201cI am not saying, factually, that c**aine was involved in most of the CIA\u2019s decision around this time, but\u2026\u201d

(6:43) - Guatemala\u2019s social hierarchy in the 19th century - \u201cThey\u2019re free, but they\u2019re not f**kin free.\u201d

(8:59) - United Fruit Company takes control of Guatemala - \u201cMan did not have a marketing team \u2026 No PR relations.\u201d

(15:12) - The Guatemalan spring and the 1954 coup - \u201cHitler was the GOAT \u2026 I\u2019m the Hitler of Guatemala \u2026 What\u2019s good?\u201d

(19:37) - Some banana facts - \u201cThe dude who ran the camp across from us, the bondage camp, that was called The Spank Bank \u2026 His name was Big Mike.\u201d

(24:25) - Wages for Untied Fruit Company laborers - \u201cYou just lose your job if you\u2019re ever off the line for more than 30 seconds.\u201d

(28:19) - A tangent into FDR\u2019s presidency - \u201cTippin\u2019 the hat \u2026 Ticklin\u2019 the balls.\u201d

(35:26) - The United Fruit Company\u2019s violent history - \u201cThat\u2019s no better than a banana republic \u2026 Our crop is stocks.\u201d

(41:17) - Panama Disease and the rise of the Cavendish - \u201cAlso, very American that within a matter of like, 60 years we\u2019ve absolutely gutted a destroyed a natural resource.\u201d

(47:55) - Chiquita executives funding Colombian militants - \u201cHow do you get off calling yourself the United Fruit Company, when all you f**k with is bananas?\u201d

(53:41) - The results of Guatemala\u2019s most recent presidential election - \u201cBut sometimes you kind of have to do a positive thing so that you can keep doing negative things.\u201d

(1:01:23) - How the United States creates the immigration crisis - \u201cLike, there\u2019s f**king avocado cartels now.\u201d

(1:07:25) - Getting mad at capitalism for almost 10 minutes - \u201cCompete or die \u2026 Compete or suffer \u2026 There is no simple life.\u201d

(1:16:58) - Outro - \u201cNow we got the worst kind of herpes.\u201d

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