Editing United Fruit Company (section)

===Banana multinational establishment and expansion===
{{More citations needed|section|date=January 2023}}[[File:Tela, Honduras LOC 2009582414.jpg|thumb|1929 map of the town of Tela]]
The granting of land ownership in exchange for the railroad concession started the first official competitive market for bananas and giving birth to the [[banana republic]]. Cuyamel Fruit Company and the Vaccaro Bros. and Co. would become known as being multinational enterprises. Bringing western modernization and industrialization to the welcoming Honduran nation. All the while Honduran bureaucrats would continue to take away the indigenous communal lands to trade for capital investment contracts as well as neglect the fair rights of Honduran laborers. After the peak of the banana republic era, resistance eventually began to grown on the part of small-scale producers and production laborers, due to the exponential rate in growth of the [[wealth gap]] as well as the collusion between the profiting Honduran government officials and the U.S. fruit companies (United Fruit Co., Standard Fruit Co., Cuyamel Fruit Co.) versus the Honduran working and poor classes.

Due to the exclusivity of the land concessions and lack of official ownership documentation, Honduran producers and experienced laborers were left with two options to regain these lands—''dominio util'' or ''dominio pleno. Dominio util''—meaning the land was intended to be developed for the greater good of the public with a possibility of being the granted "full private ownership" versus ''dominio pleno'' was the immediate granting of ''full private ownership with the right to sell''.<ref name=":13" /> Based on the 1898 Honduran agrarian law, without being sanctioned the right their communal lands, Honduran villages and towns could only regain these lands if granted by the Honduran government or in some cases it was permitted by U.S. companies, such as United Fruit Co., to create long-term contracts with independent producers on devastatingly diseased infested districts.<ref name=":24">{{Cite book|title=The United Fruit Company in Latin America|url=https://archive.org/details/unitedfruitcompa0000mays|url-access=registration|last1=May|first1=Stacy|last2=Plaza|first2=Galo|publisher=National Planning Association|year=1958|location=Austin, Texas|pages=[https://archive.org/details/unitedfruitcompa0000mays/page/84 84]–94,153–154, 183–199|isbn=9781375930369}}</ref> Even once granted land concessions, many were so severely contaminated with either the Panaman, moko, or sigatoka, that it would have to reduce the acreage used and the amount produced or changed the crop being produced. Additionally, accusations were reported of the Tela Railroad Company placing intense requirements, demanding exclusivity in distribution, and unjustly denying crops produced by small-scale farmers because they were deemed "inadequate". Compromise was attempted between small-scale fruit producers and the multinationals enterprises but were never reached and resulted in local resistance.<ref name=":02" />

The U.S. fruit corporations were choosing rural agriculture lands in Northern Honduras, specifically using the new railroad system for their proximity to major port cities of [[Puerto Cortes]], [[Tela]], [[La Ceiba]], and [[Trujillo, Honduras|Trujillo]] as the main access points of transport for shipments designated back to the United States and Europe. To get an understanding of the dramatic increase in amount of bananas being exported, firstly "in the [[Atlántida Department|Atlantida]], the Vaccaro Brothers (Standard Fruit) oversaw the construction of 155 kilometers of railroad between 1910 and 1915...the expansion of the railroad led to a concomitant rise exports, from 2.7 million bunches in 1913 to 5.5 million in 1919."<ref name=":13" /> Standard Fruit, Cuyamel, and the United Fruit Co. combined surpassed past profit performances, "In 1929 a record 29 million bunches left Honduran shores, a volume that exceeded the combined exports of [[Colombia]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Guatemala]], and [[Panama]]."<ref name=":13" />