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To: energyplay who wrote (55417)	9/24/2009 1:20:16 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217979

with skilled diplomats who needs an aircraft carrier? Bolivia shut the gas down. Paraguay wanted more money for Itaipu's energy. Equador made troule for PBR. What we do? We talk things over.

To: energyplay who wrote (55417)	9/24/2009 10:17:35 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217979

The quintessential " banana republic" Honduras became a foreign enclave as a result of Anglo-American control over it's railroads, mining industry and banana production in the 1800's. U.S. banana companies were to dominate the country for many years. I knew it! I knew it it was another Anglo job! :-) After the turn of the century, The United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit and Steamship Company expanded their control over the rich alluvial plains of Honduras' Atlantic coast. By 1929, the United Fruit Company owned or controlled 650,000 acres of the best arable land, along with railroads and ports. The banana operations were run like private cheifdoms, in which the companies kept order and crushed labor organizing with their own security forces or by calling in U.S. troops. ... Since that time, the Atlantic coast of honduras has become the scene of an immense U.S. military buildup. Formerly backward, forgotten Honduras has moved into the center-stage as the primary U.S. counterinsurgency base. The economic enclave established by the mining and banana companies at the turn of the century has been transformed into a U.S. military enclave. clas.ufl.edu Time for us to civilize that place.