-- PART ONE The World of Plantations -- Introduction to Part One -- 2 The Banana Boys Come to Ecuador -- 3 The Birth of an ….Striffler traces the entrance of United Fruit into Ecuador during the 1930s, its worker-induced departure in the 1960s, the troubled …

Ecuador and Colombia are important sources of competition. Focusing on Ecuador, the world's leading exporter of bananas since … in the country, Ecuador has never been a banana republic, dominated economically and politically by a foreign corporation …, Ecuador's tropical fruit sector has expanded more than it would have done had multinational corporate dominance never been …