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Banana Wars article has a brief explanation about trade and the US involvement with Caribbean island and Latin America. The US got involved because of the corruption Latin America government treated their workers. The US wanted to secure trade routes, so they secured the panama canal.

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I plan to elaborate more on the different countries that were also involved in the banana wars not just Latin America. The EU were part of the banana wars.

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When high import duties on bananas were announced in 1913, consumer representatives together with the banana industry protested successfully. They claimed it was the most widely consumed fruit among the urban poor, thus contrasting it with the aristocratic traditions associated with the consumption of other tropical commodities such as tea,coffee, and chocolate.

The Spanish American War was the US first global conflict.

Intervention

Cuba: Military Governor Wood visits the Spanish military hospital and found heaps of infected clothing, in the courtyard the well was fouled human and animal skeleton, shoes,rags,and slime a foot deep.

In December 1899 US president William McKinley deemed Leonard Wood to have supreme power in Cuba.

The US liberated Cubans from their Spanish oppression.

Panama: In 1885 Panama became US military intervention on the isthmus. The building process for the panama canal collapse in bankruptcy, mismanagement, and disease in 1889.

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was to negotiate the Nicaragua canal with the United Kingdom and Ireland. The treaty was to make sure no one would have control over the canal but to protect the canal. But with the death of Clayton-Bulwer Treaty in 1899 it allowed the US government to continue to construct and to regulate isthmian waterway. The new treaty was called Hay–Pauncefote Treaty. It also allowed the US full control and managing the canal (p97-98)

Sources for Banana Wars

Langley, Lester D. The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898-1934. SR Books, 2002.

11.Musicant, Ivan. The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama. New York: Macmillan, 1991.