<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The United Fruit Co.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the trumpet sounded, it was <br>all prepared on the earth, <br>the Jehovah parcelled out the earth <br>to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, <br>Ford Motors, and other entities: <br>The Fruit Company, Inc. <br>reserved for itself the most succulent, <br>the central coast of my own land, <br>the delicate waist of America. <br>It rechristened its territories <br>as the ’Banana Republics’ <br>and over the sleeping dead, <br>over the restless heroes <br>who brought about the greatness, the liberty and the flags, <br>it established the comic opera: <br>abolished the independencies, <br>presented crowns of Caesar, <br>unsheathed envy, attracted <br>the dictatorship of the flies, <br>Trujillo flies, Tacho flies, <br>Carias flies, Martines flies, <br>Ubico flies, damp flies <br>of modest blood and marmalade, <br>drunken flies who zoom <br>over the ordinary graves, <br>circus flies, wise flies <br>well trained in tyranny.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Among the blood-thirsty flies <br>the Fruit Company lands its ships, <br>taking off the coffee and the fruit; <br>the treasure of our submerged <br>territories flow as though <br>on plates into the ships.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meanwhile Indians are falling <br>into the sugared chasms <br>of the harbours, wrapped <br>for burials in the mist of the dawn: <br>a body rolls, a thing <br>that has no name, a fallen cipher, <br>a cluster of the dead fruit <br>thrown down on the dump.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Pablo+Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476130" data-title="The United Fruit Co. de Pablo Neruda" data-description="When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for itself the most succulent, the central coast..."></div> </div> </div>

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