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Article: Bananas and United States foreign policy
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- February 28, 1999
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Caribbean Today
02-28-1999
Bananas and United States foreign policy
The United States of America is a great nation. Quite often, however, the trifling and petty nature of its foreign policy baffles observers.
A case in point is the current banana controversy with the European Union. Commencing even before the Victorian era, the former imperial powers of Western Europe, such as France and Great Britain, have benevolently granted preferential trading terms to their dependent Third World colonies in the West Indies, Africa and the elsewhere.
Evincing a compassionate capitalism, these trading terms were left in place when these economically fragile mini-states were given independence, (cut loose ...