The Scars of the Wind— Francisco Martín Moreno

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Why are we a rich continent of poor people?

Money, sex, coups, blood, threats, and violence challenged congresses, judges, presidents, and dictators, who could not resist the temptation to benefit from the big business offered to them by the so-called United Fruit Octopus.

A stark account of the ambitious and sordid web forged by the United States in the early 20th century to seize the economic and political power of poor countries, populated by illiterates, without military might or democratic structures, but with fertile territories that would increase the economic power of uncontrollable transnational corporations and the Catholic clergy, regardless of the misery and backwardness into which they plunged an entire continent.

ISBN: 9786073853873

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