... expensive fruit because of their specific climate requirement, and the lack of road and transportation made them doubly difficult for selling in large quantity. "The banana trade in its infant evolution was hazardous and unpredictable. Pioneering in the pestilent jungle lowlands, where bananas grow, was heartbreaking because the jungle fights to reclaim its terrain and only the strong survive." (4) May Stacy commented in her book ... 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. Yet, today, less than a century ... ...

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... by Emilio Aguinaldo, who had helped America overthrow the Spanish a year earlier. America had found itself a weak adversary on the battle field, but a fierce opponent in the jungle as the Filipinos dragged the insurrection on with guerilla warfare. In 1901, the insurrection was crushed when Aguinaldo was captured, but the carnage on both sides deeply affected American views. Subsequent to the war, McKinley perceived it essential to assimilate, though ... awfully slowly, the Filipinos so that neither the Spanish nor anarchy would rule the country. He poured millions in to the Philippines...

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