Venenzuela (thread 6): Episode 1: Banana Wars: How Fruit Fueled an American Empire

With Venezuela back in the headlines, this episode traces a straight line from the Banana Wars to modern interventions: companies like United Fruit didn’t just sell fruit, they helped run countries.

Short, sharp, and a little chilling, it shows how ‘stability’ and corporate profit were used to justify intervention — a pattern that moved from plantations to pipelines and still matters today.