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Most sources state how the “United Fruit has been considered the quintessential representative of American imperialism in Latin America, holding the local governments in its pocket, controlling the local economy of the host countries, and harshly exploiting the plantation workers.” The success of the company led many to question how the company was able to act as such, especially with the money from the exports of banana to the United States the company was able to pay the few government’s officials, but not the actual field workers, since they outnumbered them. With the rules from both the government and United Fruit Company, people from Latin America had nowhere else to go, but to stay and work in the fields to