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Charles Brockett. Land, Power and Poverty. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991. 249 pp. - Robert G. Williams. Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. 257 pp. - Robert G. Williams. States and Social Evolution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 357 pp.

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Robert C. Harding II
Robert C. Harding II*
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University of Miami
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , Spring 1996 , pp. 143 - 153
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Copyright © University of Miami 1996

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1. It is a fact that United Brands paid bribes to Central American governments to quell peasant complaints regarding its monopoly of arable land, a charge which only came to light in 1975 when United Brands pleaded guilty to charges that it had conspired to pay $2.5 million to a prominent Honduran official in return for (1) reducing die export tax on bananas and (2) a 20-year extension of its lease on certain favorable terms.