Editing United Fruit Company (section)

==Other Latin American Countries==
Costa Rica: UFCO controlled 50,000 acres by 1930, resisting reforms under José Figueres Ferrer (1948–1949, 1953–1958), who nationalized some assets but avoided expropriation due to U.S. pressure. Figueres’s 1948 junta, supported by UFCO to counter 'communist' influence despite there not being any influence.

Colombia: The 1928 banana workers’ strike in Magdalena, demanding better wages, led to the 1928 massacre by Colombian troops, with UFCO’s complicity alleged in One Hundred Years of Solitude. While not tied to land reform, it highlighted UFCO’s resistance to labor rights, a precursor to its anti-reform stance.

Cuba: UFCO owned 270,000 acres before the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro’s nationalization of its plantations prompted UFCO to lobby for the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961), though its role was secondary to broader U.S. anti-Castro efforts, per The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen.