Editing United Fruit Company (section)

===Cuba===
By the early 20th century, the UFCO began its operations in Cuba by controlling large tracts of land and influencing local governance and labor markets. In the early 1920s, the UFCO established its central hub for operations in the Cuban city of Banes where the banana plantations were run by the ''[[antillano]]'' population.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sullivan |first=Frances Peace |date=2014 |title="Forging Ahead" in Banes, Cuba: Garveyism in a United Fruit Company Town |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24713753 |journal=NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids |volume=88 |issue=3/4 |pages=231–261 |issn=1382-2373}}</ref> The antillano population refers to migrants from the British Caribbean, more specifically from [[Jamaica]] and [[Haiti]]. With the introduction of the UFCO in Banes, the city was transformed socially and economically, due to an increase in employment, better infrastructure, and more law enforcement.

Company holdings in [[Cuba]], which included sugar mills in the [[Oriente Province|Oriente]] region of the island, were [[Confiscation|expropriated]] by the 1959 [[Cuban revolution|revolutionary government]] led by [[Fidel Castro]]. By April 1960 Castro was accusing the company of aiding [[Cuban exile]]s and supporters of former leader [[Fulgencio Batista]] in initiating a seaborne invasion of Cuba directed from the United States.<ref>[[Oliver Stone]], The Untold History of the USA, episode 6 after 6 minutes and 38 seconds: "[...]Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, in an embarrassing prequel to Colin Powell's performance at the UN over Iraq in 2003, showed a photograph of a plane supposedly flown by a Cuban defector, but quickly exposed as belonging to the CIA. The assault has begun on the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Almost 1600 Cuban exiles arrived at the Bay of Pigs in 7 ships, 2 of them owned by '''United Fruit'''.[...]"</ref> Castro warned the U.S. that "Cuba is not another Guatemala" in one of many combative diplomatic exchanges before the U.S. organized the failed [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]] of 1961.