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So we're gonna get into something a bit different this week. Not really truecrime, not unsolved, but definitely crazy. This is another one we got from a listener that we had no clue ever happened. While the official death toll of this incident is usually put at around 45, some estimates say it could be up to 2000. Those bodies are said to either have been dumped in the sea or buried in mass graves. So what was the incident about you ask? Well, long story very short… Bananas. We're gonna dive into what is simply known as the Banana massacre,  a crazy tale of a government squashing a banana strike with excessive force and what came after. Buckle up guys, here we go!   Before we start, I want to acknowledge the great sources of info for this episode. 90% of the information on this week's episode came from two amazing sources that had tons of info that we couldn't find anywhere else. First a paper by Jorge Enrique Elias Caro and Antonino Vidal Ortega on the website scielo.org was our source for the actual massacre info while an article called Rotten Fruit by Peter Chapman on the Financial Times website was our source for the company history.  So, let's start by talking about a fruit company. United Fruit company to be exact. United Fruit began life in the 1870s when Minor Cooper Keith, a wealthy young New Yorker, started growing bananas as a business sideline, alongside a railway line he was building in Costa Rica. Both ventures took off, and by 1890 he was married to the daughter of a former president of Costa Rica and owned vast banana plantations on land given to him by the state. The bananas were shipped to New Orleans and Boston, where demand soon began to outstrip supply.Keith teamed up with Andrew Preston, a Boston importer, and in 1899 they formed United Fruit. Bananas sold well for their tropical cachet: they were exotic, a luxury only affordable to the rich. But the rapidly rising output of United Fruit's plantations brought down prices. The company created a mass market in the industrial cities of the US north-east and Midwest. The once bourgeois banana became positively proletarian.   By the 1920s, United Fruit's empire had spread across Central America. It also included Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In South America the company owned chunks of Colombia and Ecuador. It came to dominate the European as well as the US banana markets with the help of its Great White Fleet of 100 refrigerated ships, the largest private navy in the world.   There are more than 300 varieties of banana, but United Fruit grew only one: the Gros Michel or ”Big Mike”. This variety suited most tastes; it was not too big or too small, too yellow or too sweet - if anything, it was a little bland. This was the forerunner of the transnational products we have today.           But mass production took its toll. In 1903, disease hit United Fruit's plantations in Panama. An array of pathogens kept up the attack, and the banana was discovered to have a genetic weakness. Its seeds are ill equipped for reproduction, so growers take cuttings from one plant to create another. The banana is a clone, with each inbred generation less resilient.    Although the banana was diseased, United Fruit marketed it as a product that exemplified good health. Banana diseases did not affect humans, and the fruit was said to be the cure for many ills: obesity, blood pressure, constipation - even depression. In 1929, United Fruit set up its own ”education department”, which supplied US schools with teaching kits extolling the benefits of the banana and the good works of the company. Meanwhile, United Fruit's ”home economics” department showered housewives with banana recipes.   One of United Fruit's most successful advertising campaigns began in 1944, designed to boost the banana's profile after its scarcity during the war. It featured Senorita Chiquita Banana, a cartoon banana who danced and sang in an exuberant Latin style. Senorita Chiquita bore a close resemblance to Carmen Miranda, the Brazilian entertainer who, in her ”tutti-frutti” hat, wowed Hollywood at the time. Sales soon regained prewar levels.   By the 1960s, the banana had become an inseparable accompaniment to the morning cereal of most American children. And today, in countries such as the US and Britain, it has ousted the apple as the most popular fruit. In the UK, figures indicate that more than 95 per cent of households buy bananas each week, and that more money is spent on them than on any other supermarket item, apart from petrol and lottery tickets.    Soooo sounds like a pretty typical big business rise to power by providing a wholesome treat to the people right? Wrong… There was more going on than almost everybody knew.    Over the years, United Fruit fought hard for low taxes and light regulation. By the beginning of the 20th century, troublesome anti-trust laws had been passed in the US to crack down on business behaviour such as price-fixing and other monopolistic practices. Taxes on large corporations were increased to fund welfare benefits in the US and fully fledged welfare states in Europe. But, with a centre of operations far from the lawmakers of Washington DC, United Fruit largely avoided all this.   The company also gained a reputation as being ruthless when crossed, and acted to remove governments that did not comply with its wishes. United Fruit had first shown its tough nature in the invasion of Honduras in 1911, which was planned by Sam ”The Banana Man” Zemurray, a business partner of United Fruit who later headed the company. Efforts by Zemurray and United Fruit to set up production in Honduras had been blocked by the Honduran government, which was fearful of the power it might wield. United Fruit was not so easily deterred. Zemurray financed an invasion, led by such enterprising types as ”General” (self-appointed) Lee Christmas and freelance trouble-shooter Guy ”Machine Gun” Molony. Thanks to United Fruit, many more exercises in ”regime change” were carried out in the name of the banana.   In 1941, the company hired a new consultant, Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, who had adapted the early disciplines of psychoanalysis to the marketplace. Bernays is known as the ”father of public relations” following his seminal 1928 book, Propaganda, in which he argued that it was the duty of the ”intelligent minority” of society to manipulate the unthinking ”group mind”. This, Bernays asserted, was for the sake of freedom and democracy.   United Fruit had become concerned about its image. In Central America, it was commonly known as el pulpo (the octopus) - its tentacles everywhere. In the US, United Fruit's territories were seen as troubled and forbidding. Under Bernays' guidance, the company began issuing a steady flow of information to the media about its work, rebranding the region as ”Middle America”.   America”.   In 1954, Bernays exercised his manipulative powers to get rid of the Guatemalan government. Democratically elected, it had taken some of United Fruit's large areas of unused land to give to peasant farmers. Bernays' response was to call newspaper contacts who might be amenable to the company view. Journalists were sent on ”fact finding” missions to Central America and, in particular, Guatemala, where they chased false stories of gunfire and bombs. In dispatches home, Guatemala became a place gripped by ”communist terror”.   The company looked, too, to friends in high places, both in the corridors of power and in the offices where the big decisions were made. During the Guatemalan crisis, John Foster Dulles, one of the world's most esteemed statesmen, was secretary of state. His brother, Allen Dulles, was head of the CIA. Both were former legal advisers to United Fruit. Together, the Dulles brothers orchestrated the coup that overthrew Guatemala's government in 1954.   Despite its ugly reputation, United Fruit often made philanthropic gestures.  Eli Black, chief executive of the United Fruit Company, played a part in coining the term ”corporate social responsibility” when, in reference to earthquake relief sent to Nicaragua in 1972, he extolled the company's deeds as ”our social responsibility”.  And in the 1930s, Sam Zemurray donated part of his fortune to a children's clinic in New Orleans. He later gave $1m to the city's Tulane University to finance ”Middle American'' research; he also funded a Harvard professorship for women. Philanthropy, however, did not prevent United Fruit's abuses, and, in the 1950s, the US government decided it had to act. The company's activities had caused such anti-US feeling in Latin America that leftwing revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara had prospered. And so Washington began to take away some of United Fruit's land.   Ironically, Castro had benefited from the presence of United Fruit in Cuba. His father, a sugar planter, leased land from the company, and had made enough money to afford a good upbringing for his children. Guevara had fought both United Fruit and the CIA during the Guatemalan coup; he maintained thereafter that Latin America had no choice but ”armed struggle”. At New Year 1959, Castro and Guevara seized power in Cuba and kicked out the US-supported regime of Fulgencio Batista.   Like an ailing dictator, United Fruit lashed out - and nearly took the world with it. In 1961, it lent part of its Great White Fleet to the CIA and Cuban exiles in the US who were plotting to overthrow Castro. When the Bay of Pigs invasion failed, Castro, fearing another attack, ushered in armaments from the Soviet Union, prompting the missile crisis of 1962.   United Fruit battled on through the 1960s, its product ever more the victim of disease. Big Mike flagged, died and gave way to the dessert banana most of the developed world eats today, the Cavendish. It was said to be ”disease resistant”. Now that's dying, too.   Eli Black took over the company in 1970, imagining he could turn it back into the colossus it once was. The early 1970s, however, were a terrible period for the image of multinational corporations. Chief among them, oil companies made huge profits from the crisis after the 1973 Middle East war, to the inflationary ruin of rich and poor countries alike. United Fruit became an embarrassment. It was weak where others, such as the oil moguls, remained strong. When its stock market value crashed and regulators moved in, it looked like natural selection.   Early on Monday February 3 1975, a man threw himself out of his office window, 44 floors above Park Avenue, New York. He had used his briefcase to smash the window, and then thrown it out before he leapt, scattering papers for blocks around. Glass fell on to the rush-hour traffic, but amazingly no one else was hurt. The body landed away from the road, near a postal service office. Postmen helped emergency workers clear up the mess so the day's business could carry on.    This jumper was quickly identified as Eli Black, chief executive of the United Fruit Company.   It emerged that Black, a devout family man, had bribed the Honduran president, Oswaldo Lopez Arellano, with $1.25m to encourage him to pull out of a banana cartel which opposed United Fruit. The story was about to come out in the US press. United Fruit's Central American plantations were also struggling with hurricane damage and a new banana disease. Facing disgrace and failure, Black took his own life. His death was shocking, not least because he had the reputation of a highly moral man. Wall Street was outraged, the company's shares crashed and regulators seized its books to prevent ”its further violation of the law”. The company subsequently disappeared from public view and was seemingly erased from the collective mind.   After the fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, in a born-again spirit of globalisation, the world's main banana companies picked up the free-market banner once carried by United Fruit. The companies - Chiquita, Del Monte and Dole from the US, and Noboa from Ecuador - did not have anything like the force of United Fruit individually, but they were still a formidable presence. Together they were known to their critics, if not to themselves, as the ”Wild Bunch”.   In the 1990s, the US took its case to the World Trade Organisation, the new high court of globalisation. The companies protested that west European countries unfairly protected the producers of so-called ”Fairtrade” bananas in former European colonies through a complex system of quotas and licences. The Wild Bunch characterised this as revamped colonialism and outmoded welfare state-ism and, instead, promoted their own ”Free Trade” bananas.   In the new millennium, after what had become a general trade war, the Europeans backed down and agreed to concessions. They did so with some rancour, protesting that Washington had again allowed itself to be manipulated by narrow interests. Some spoke of a return of the ”old and dark forces”. They were thinking of United Fruit.   Ok so that's kind of a basic history of United Fruit company to get us going in the right direction to talk about one of the most brutal things they carried out on their workers. You've seen the connection they had and the power they had.. Pretty nuts for a fucking banana company.    On the evening of October 5, 1928, the delegates for Colombia's banana workers in Magdalena gathered to discuss their grievances. Among their concerns were their long hours and low pay; one worker, Aristides López Rojano, remembered: “We worked from six in the morning until eleven and then from one in the afternoon until six.... The contractor paid the salary and reserved up to thirty percent for himself.” Erasmo Coronel (the one wearing the bowtie in the group portrait) spoke in favor of a strike, and the others agreed. At around five in the morning on October 6, 1928, the workers issued the United Fruit Company a list of nine demands.   Stop their practice of hiring through sub-contractors   Mandatory collective insurance   Compensation for work accidents   Hygienic dormitories and 6 day work weeks   Increase in daily pay for workers who earned less than 100 pesos per month   Weekly wage   Abolition of office stores   Abolition of payment through coupons rather than money   Improvement of hospital services   The strike turned into the largest labor movement ever witnessed in the country until then. Radical members of the Liberal Party, as well as members of the Socialist and Communist Parties, participated.   The workers wanted to be recognized as employees, and demanded the implementation of the Colombian legal framework of the 1920s.   After U.S. officials in Colombia and United Fruit representatives portrayed the workers' strike as "communist" with a "subversive tendency" in telegrams to Frank B. Kellogg, the United States Secretary of State, the United States government threatened to invade with the U.S. Marine Corps if the Colombian government did not act to protect United Fruit's interests. The Colombian government was also compelled to work for the interests of the company, considering they could cut off trade of Colombian bananas with significant markets such as the United States and Europe.   As there was no agreement the Government militarized the zone. The newspaper "La Prensa" published the following:   "MORE TROOPS FOR THE BANANERA REGION. We have been informed that the leaving of the Commissioner sent by the Industry Ministry due to the existing conflict between the workers and the company has turned the situation critical. For this reason, the War Ministry ordered the concentration of more troops in Ciénaga. Therefore, yesterday night, a numerous contingent was dispatched from here on a special ship"   By the end of November the Magdalena Agriculture Society tried to find a solution to the situation. They named a Commission and along with the Chief of the Work Office and the workers' delegates would have a meeting with the UFC since the conflict was affecting everyone's interests. The multinational rejected meeting the Commission stating that the workers were out of the law. The representatives of the workers left for Ciénaga with the aim of convincing their fellow workers to abandon the region. They also demanded the arbitration as a last legal resort.   Social Party (PSR) founded in 1927 in Bogotá. The strike was also supported by the national and departmental union leaders ascribed to the Magdalena Workers Federation, the Magdalena Worker Union and the General Union of Workers of the Union Society (popularly known as the Yellow Union which integrated railway, port and construction workers of Santa Marta).   The first week of December everything was at a standstill, without a solution. The company hired a steamboat and brought 200 military men and took over the town hall without the mayor's authorization. To this respect the Ciénaga newspaper "Diario del Córdoba" noted:   "We do not know who ordered changing the town house into a campsite of troops, but we are certain that the municipality spokesman was not consulted for this illegal occupation. He would have certainly opposed it since there was no alteration of public order according to the norms in force. We see that the procedures here are "manu militari", without any consideration under the obvious alarm of these peoples, panic in society and business."   Military roadblocks were displayed. Trains were searched and the army prevented strikers from using them33. Tension increased and temporary workers started to return to their hometowns. Military pressure blocked the communication systems and the mail, telephones, telegraph and even the press stopped working. The strikers seized the train from Ciénaga to the plantations and they prevented its exit during the day.   On December 3rd, the press was conscious of the extreme situation: The situation of the Banana Strike is worse than ever. Especially because of the uneasiness caused by the Governor's Office for having called the Army. Any kind of meeting was banned, as it was assumed that they questioned the state legitimacy and stability and the government decisions. This measure outraged workers, because some detentions took place in Ciénaga and they were justified by the police since some documents of an apparently communist campaign were confiscated.   From this moment on, American Diplomats started to worry for the security of the American employees up to the point that the Government of the United States sent a ship to Santa Marta for the protection of their citizens as was stated by the US ambassador in Bogotá. He made clear that it was not a war cruise. Anyhow, it was possible to confirm that in the ports of Ciénaga and Santa Marta war ships docked with the aim of reinforcing troops.    To break the strike, on December 2nd, a military contingent of 300 men arrived in Ciénaga from the interior of the country. The major of the zone considered that these soldiers would be better at facing the situation than those native of the region. At the same time that same day some municipalities protested against the disposition of the governor's office. The workers exodus continued, the general situation of commerce aggravated, many commercial houses closed and some of them stopped paying their debts alleging the scarce security conditions and low sales. Similarly occurred with the stores of the UFC which closed due to lack of business activity. There was a total lack of supplies of basic products in the banana zone.   With the excuse that in Ciénaga the strikers were committing all kinds of outrages, the army seized the train to mobilize troops to the different towns, preventing normal circulation; this information proved false and the train returned to Cienaga during the first hours of the next day. The community remained isolated and without the possibility to use the train as a transportation means. The train was used by the militaries for the surveillance of plantations.   A State of Siege declaration was expected and this increased tension among strikers who organized collective bodies in different locations to prevent the work of producers. Detentions continued. The train detention by the military and the impossibility to take bananas out due to the positions of the strikers and small landowners, the harvested fruit began to rot.   The Workers Union used the newspaper Vanguardia Obrera and other pasquinades to inform about their position and to keep public opinion updated. On December 5th, alleging that the strikers had managed to get weapons, the government decreed the State of Siege. This was not made public to the workers and for this reason they became more exacerbated.   A pressure mechanism used to obtain the support of merchants was the fact of creating solidarity to boycott the public market stores and other commercial firms if the transaction was not authorized by the Workers Union. This way, merchants could not sell if they did not have the "permission". To accomplish this policy the union had 5.000 workers acting as vigilantes. This situation led the UFC to ask the government if the State was in condition to protect its interests. The State response was dubious. In its effort to reach an equilibrium between the pressure of the company and that of the workers, it submitted a communication where it stated that it would analyse the situation and would take the corresponding steps.   The workers' unrest for not feeling the State support led them to radicalization of their protest and since that moment, seizures of banana farms took place in different municipalities. There were confrontations between land owners, the military and the workers. It is worth mentioning the events in Sevilla, where workers detained a group of soldiers.   As the tension increased with this last event the Ministry Council declared general alteration of public order on December 5th, and gave special faculties to Minister Arrazola to act as a mediator between the parties and positioned General Cortés Vargas as Civil and Military Chief. This intervention was justified by the economic losses of the socio-economic and political system of the nation because it had been estimated that up to that moment the losses exceeded one million dollars and given the fact that the fierce position of the workers had stopped communications and transportations and even there had been seizures in several localities and there was fear concerning the situation of Santa Marta.   The government sent information to the United Press as follows: "The government has decreed the State of Siege in the Province of Santa Marta where the workers of the United Fruit Company maintain a strike lasting several days. General Carlos Cortés Vargas has been appointed Civil and Military Chief". On the other hand, the national press and especially that of the capital announced: " there has never been a longer and more numerous strike in the country than this of the workers of Magdalena. Thirty-two thousand workers have been in total inactivity for more than thirty days in the banana region, there are no signs that this situation will have a favourable solution"   Events reached their peak in Ciénaga. The workers had concentrated for a pacific demonstration in the evening of the 5th of December. The Governor Nuñez Roca decreed the dispersion of the demonstration. The workers did not receive this well; they declared that authorities had taken this decision with the support of the UFC and the militaries without the presence of workers' representatives. This made clear to them that authorities were defending the interests of the Company and the local "bananacracy"and not theirs as Colombian workers. The concentration ended in a protest.   The militaries obeyed the orders of the Governor and it was authorized to follow orders and demand the workers to dissolve the demonstration as it was not authorized.   The text was read in the square and at the same time the troop took positions. There were approximately 1.500 strikers in the square.   The army gave the strikers 15 minutes to disperse and the workers' answer was a the massive agitation of the Colombian flags and shouts related to the workers movement. The army responded with drumbeats and the menace to repel the strikers. Three bugle warnings were given, but nevertheless the strikers remained in their positions. A deep silence reigned in the square and the menace of the army became an unfortunate reality when the shout "Shoot" was uttered. Rifles and machine guns were discharged against the defenceless and unarmed demonstrators. In minutes the ground of the square was tinted with blood.   Once the attack of the army against their own fellow citizens ended, the sight was dantesque. The cadavers, the wounded and their relatives were troubling scenes. These events took place at the dawn of December 6th: a brutal aggression against a workers' demonstration.   The news invaded the media and the first chronicles appeared with living information about the tragic balance of the events. The first report on the newspaper "La Prensa" from Barranquilla informed of 8 people killed and 20 wounded. After a week, the same newspaper mentioned 100 dead and 238 wounded. Meanwhile official sources and diplomatic communications signalled the number of people killed as being 1.000. This number, and along with other kind of testimonies collected, agree that the number of killings was over a thousand and that the militaries loaded the trains with the corpses and buried them in mass graves in inaccessible areas and up to the present times they have not been localized.   This repression caused a massive exodus of the terrified population. They abandoned the zone and migrated to different parts of the country for fear of military persecution and arrestment. Many of them left their scarce possessions behind.   National and international media widely covered this event. Both the UFC and the government tried to manipulate the information to protect their image. The press echoed and broadcasted the sometimes biased news, informing about "combats" between the army troops and the "revolutionaries" and that as a result of these combats, 8 "bandits" were killed and 20 were wounded. The War Ministry insisted that "in Magdalena there was no strike, but a revolution".   Other newspapers such as "La Prensa" from Barranquilla, issued their edition of December 8th in red characters as a reference to this event that brought mourning to the entire country and as a symbolic commemorative act.   Referring to a communication sent to the United Press, the War Ministry informed officially that in the attack of the strikers against the troops there had been 8 dead and 20 wounded and that in order to control the revolutionary outbreaks against state order, the immediate mobilization of more troops had been ordered. They would arrive from cities of the interior of the country. It also emphasised the position of the government that the workers' situation in Magdalena was delicate and that vigorous decisions had to be taken in order to solve this issue. It also informed that beside Ciénaga, other localities had to be intervened.   The Times from New York informed in a biased and extended way that the turmoil in the Colombian Banana Region was provoked by Mexican incendiaries, who had led the process of the Mexican Revolution, two decades earlier. It also gave details about the aspects of the banana strike that were consequences of the expiration of the Barco Concession .   At the same time the UFC issued a press communication to the New York agencies and the worldwide correspondents declaring: "the difficult situation experienced during the past days in the Colombian banana region, where the company has valuable interests, has quite improved in the last 24 hours and the dispatches sent from the scene, give rise to expectations for a prompt solution of the conflict surged between the workers and the company which ended in an extended strike of revolutionary nature".   While the American press provided biased information, trying to defend the multinational interests and that of their government, the national press analysed the situation with greater objectivity. The daily newspaper "El Tiempo" from Bogotá commented in an extended note that most of the claims of the strikers were righteous improvement of working conditions. Nevertheless, due to its conservative position, the editorial stated that they did not agree with the strike since they considered that the workers had a bad leadership and they made the leaders responsible for what had happened. They reminded the authorities that force is not the supreme reason as the only system to solve a conflict since violence is not a valid option to impose certain vindications.   In response to these events and as a protest for the massacre, several offices of the United Fruit and the railway were set on fire and destroyed. The hard situation caused by the army repression and the lack of jobs led to the assault of the company's stores where people seized food.    "It is not about fixing anyhow a difficult situation, it is about avoiding more critical events in the immediate future. Therefore we need a wise, prudent, political Colombian, who does not forget the circumstances regarding the conflict. Someone who does not forget how the United Fruit Company manipulates the political and civil life of Magdalena and who does not think it indispensable to send troops for hunting workers as animals. Someone who will not be hard and inflexible with them and subordinated and honey mouthed with the company agents"   After the massacre, the workers who managed to escape emigrated to other areas of the region and new versions of the events started to become public. It was the version of the defeated. This version informed the public opinion about the concentration in the Ciénaga square and not in farms as had been informed by authorities to justify the fact of not being able to notify the exact number of deaths.   On December 10th after a convulsed weekend, the headings announced "the revolutionaries' flee in stampede to the Sierra Nevada," "government troops completely defeated the strikers "; the War Minister informs that there were more deaths during the last combats". In general, the press informed about a revolutionary movement which confronted the military forces and that the army was responding with rigor, but that there had not been any excess on their part. The banana zone was returning to normal, as well as the train service between Ciénaga and Santa Marta and the steam boat service between Ciénaga and Barranquilla. They also informed that since public order had been reestablished, businesses had already opened and that the exodus of the population had ended.   General Cortés Vargas issued a decree through which the revolutionaries of Magdalena were declared a gang of outlaws. The decree consisted of three articles and in one section, as a justification, it was stated that the rebel strikers committed all kinds of outrages: arson in public and private property, pillage, interruption of telegraphic and telephonic communications, destruction of railways, assault of citizens who did not agree with their communist and anarchist doctrine. This was the justification for decreeing martial law to give security to citizens and to re-establish public order. On the other hand the workers' leaders and accessories should be prosecuted to face their responsibilities. And to finish, the public force was authorized to use their guns.   At the same time troops were sent to avoid the surviving strikers' flee to the Sierra Nevada and the Departament of Atlántico. To accomplish this all the towns neighbouring the banana zone were alerted. Numerous detentions occurred and the prisoners were sent to Ciénaga to be judged by a Martial Court.   Wow…. Fucking bananas caused all this shit… Well obviously not than JUST bananas but holy shit man.    So the crazy thing is United Fruit company continued to operate did so long after this incident until eventually after the the suicide of Eli Black things unraveled and the company went away. Or did it? Well it did not. In fact the company is now still a huge banana company called… Chiquita! But at least all that bullshit is on the past… Oh wait wait… No it's not!    While Chiquita is not actively massacring people, in 2007, it admitted to paying $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Columbia (A.U.C.), a far-right paramilitary group responsible for thousands of killings and some of the worst massacres in Colombia. The A.U.C. was designated by the United States as a terrorist group at the time and Chiquita was forced to pay $25 million for violating counterterrorism laws. In particular, the A.U.C. targeted labor leaders, liquidated problem employees, and removed people from lands needed for cultivation.   “They are so bad that in 2001, even the Bush administration was forced to designate them as a terrorist organization,” said Terry Collingsworth, a Labor and Human Rights Attorney. He proceeds to say that multinational corporations had automatically aligned with the A.U.C. “They've made it safe for business here. That's what they do.” Collingsworth states, from his and his associates' reporting, that Chiquita likely paid much more than $1.7 million to the A.U.C.   Over much of the 20th century, banana companies like United Fruit effectively took over governments in countries like Guatemala and Honduras, leading to the countries' model being known as “banana republics”. A banana republic would describe politically unstable countries economically dependent on bananas as a sole export and product, and it has been diversified to include other limited-resource products. The CIA would strong-arm these governments to protect the business interests of banana companies at the expense of workers and people who lived in those countries, often propping up repressive regimes. With a historic priority of keeping the costs of bananas low, banana companies were willing to do whatever it took to keep prices low, from stifling labor movements, keeping wages low, and strong-arming governments. The United Fruit Company did it then, and Chiquita Brands does it now.   In 1999, President Clinton apologized to Guatemala, saying that “support for military forces and intelligence units which engaged in violence and widespread repression was wrong, and the United States must not repeat that mistake.” Movies:   Horror movies about killer food   https://screenrant.com/funniest-horror-b-movies-murderous-food/

La reina colombiana Taliana Vargas se sentó sin rodeo con Jomari y le reveló en exclusiva que puede convertirse en la primera dama de su país.

Hoy en Día a Día, comenzamos conversando con el analista internacional Alejandro Laurnagaray de Urquiza, sobre la situación política en Sudán: “Este mes, debía haber una transición de la cabeza de ese consejo de transición hacia los civiles. Los militares debían ceder el poder a los civiles”, dijo. “Esto es la normalidad histórica: gobiernos militares asociados con civiles, golpes de Estado, muertos en las calles, manifestaciones. Es la triste realidad que vive Sudán desde hace décadas”, señaló el analista. El periodista especialista en procesos electorales, Eugenio Martínez, nos habló sobre los resultados de las elecciones regionales de Venezuela del día de ayer: “El nivel de participación del día de ayer, si obviamos la elección parlamentaria del 2020, es el más bajo de las últimas dos décadas… Estos resultados son un llamado de atención no sólo al G4, sino a esta nueva oposición que nace en torno a Fuerza Vecinal”, señaló. Martínez destacó: “En el caso de Vargas, los votos que necesita Olivares se quedan en las tarjetas de otros partidos opositores. Algo similar pasa en Táchira y en Lara”. Claudia Heiss, doctora en Ciencia Política de la New School for Social Research, nos habló sobre las elecciones presidenciales en Chile: “Los que ganan en Chile son personas que aparecen como outsiders o personas que desafían al establishment políticos, a los partidos y a los líderes más conocidos”, destacó, y opinó: “Para la segunda vuelta, la persona que creo tiene más chance de ganar en este momento es José Antonio Kast”. Desde Tegucigalpa nos atendió Óscar Ortiz Barahona, periodista y coordinador de prensa en TV Azteca Honduras, para hablarnos sobre el panorama político ante las próximas elecciones en Honduras: “El domingo se va a escoger al nuevo presidente para los próximos cuatro años, así como los diputados al Congreso de la República y alcaldes”, comentó. “Creo que la presidencia se va a disputar entre el Partido Libre y el Partido Nacional, porque son los candidatos con mayor auge e incidencia”, opinó Barahona. El director asociado para el equipo de la prevención de violencia con armas del center of American Program, Eugenio Weigend, nos habló sobre la absolución de todos los cargos contra Kyle Rittenhouse: “Había un hueco en la ley de Wisconsin en la que se interpretaba que un menor de edad podía usar un rifle. Ese hueco permitió al juez desechar esa acusación contra Rittenhouse”, explicó. “Con esto probablemente habrá más protestas que involucren armas de fuego, ya sea en contra de las protestas o siendo utilizadas por los protestantes”, señaló Weigend. Y para cerrar, el periodista freelance en Haití, Harold Isaac, nos habló sobre la liberación de dos de los diecisiete norteamericanos secuestrados por una banda armada en Haití: “Por los momentos no tenemos mucha información, sólo sabemos que dos de las personas secuestradas fueron liberadas… El grupo ha estado secuestrado desde el 16 de octubre, y hay muy poca información sobre el caso”, comentó.

On today's chat, Hopper talks with Nick Vargas & Dean Jackson of "The Source" in Visalia. They are talking about open enrollment and how those living with HIV can be helped with little or no cost. They also chat about their new location and local events.

This week Vargas pays for his recent trip to St. Louis with some 4 Hands Full Life Lager while the boys talk about the recent on stage shenanigans of Brass Against. Also discussed: the MetaVerse, writing with your mind, and when a good idea is poorly executed.

Tony and Dave are joined by long tenured Stanford Men's Coach John Vargas. John coached Tony in College and at the National level. Their great rapport is still evident as we pick up the episode with them immediately chatting it up before we even get an official intro going!  6-8 Sports on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/68sports/   Follow Tony on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tonyazevedo8   Follow Dave on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/davewcomedy 

We are joined yet again by Alfredo Vargas on The Symbiosis Now Podcast! Tyler & Alfredo share some wild ass stories from their personal lives and discuss mental health and the implications thereof. Alfredo also tells of his travels to China and what he has learned about it's society, economy, and government. Find Alfredo Vargas over at Academy West Insurance in Reedley and get a quote now @ (559)638-3800 . Follow the podcast on Instagram @symbiosisnow.podcast for an overload of clips from the show! Find the host of the show Tyler Colombero out there on the social meeds @brodudemann . As always, special thanks to @remingt0nblake on Instagram for creating the cover art for this podcast. Go find his ass and like his posts! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/symbiosisnow/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/symbiosisnow/support

This week, the boys get musical. Brendon wants to know what the best film score is. Do Brian and Vargas deliver? Listen and find out! Other topics discussed are White Lotus on HBO and Inscryption! Sounds like a lot of fun to me!

¿Cuál es la fórmula que Caravelo propone a las compañías aéreas para generar más ingresos? ¿Cómo consiguió esta start-up española seducir a Álex Cruz, exconsejero delegado de Clickair, Vueling y British Airways? ¿En qué basa su modelo de negocio? Aerovía estrena esta semana su sección Túnel de viento, centrada en asuntos de tecnología e innovación en el transporte aéreo, con una entrevista a José Luis Vilar, cofundador de Caravelo. En compañía de nuestros colaboradores, los ingenieros aeroespaciales Pau Sendra y Jorge Gil, conocemos mejor la propuesta de esta empresa. En la segunda parte del capítulo, escuchamos la crónica de FEINDEF, la Feria Internacional de Defensa y Seguridad. De la mano de nuestros colaboradores, Juan Pons y Luis Martín-Crespo, de Hispaviación, valoramos la segunda edición de este evento internacional. Además, conocemos las valoraciones de los protagonistas. Escuchamos a Gerardo Sánchez Revenga, presidente de Aesmide; al almirante Santiago González, director general de Armamento y Material del Ministerio de Defensa; a Julián García Vargas, presidente de la Fundación FEINDEF; a Antonio Gómez-Guillamón, consejero delegado de Aertec Solutions; al teniente coronel Alfonso López Soriano, del Ejército del Aire; y a Carlos Pérez Ramírez, consejero delegado de Simloc. No te pierdas el capítulo 60 de Aerovía: ‘¿Qué es Caravelo? Conocemos la start-up por la que apuesta Álex Cruz'.

The 6th episode of Season X Finale also the 128th of the shows History. Rick, Craze and Eli Jas welcome back podcast regular Nueva Yol, Writer and Director Wali Burgos and Actress and singer YaYa Vargas. http://www.TheRickHShow.com Follow us on Instagram @TheRickHShow @UptownLiveMedia @RickHierro @BXCraze @TheRealEliJas @nuevayol @waliworld11 @the.missyaya @checklist.theplay @TriestProductions @WadsworthEntGroup @LatinPodcast Twitter @TheRickHShow Hashtags #TheRickHShow #SeasonX #PodcastForever #MoreThanAPodcast #Podcast #ForTheCulture #ChecklistthePlay

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Wow! Zepeda contra Vargas era una de esas peleas que te tiene emocionante por todo lo que paso untes de la pelea. Aunque nomas duro menos de 2 minutos era una pelea que muchas personal querían ver por todo lo que paso la semana antes de la pelea.

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On today's episode I am chatting with Joanna Vargas, celebrity esthetician and creator of results-driven skincare line, Joanna Vargas. Joanna has been on my list of dream guests since before I started this show so I am so excited for her to share her expert knowledge to get the best healthy glowing skin. She shares the building blocks to kickstart your skincare journey, her favourite skincare tips and products on the market, how to find a balance with your skin, what you need to know about exfoliation and acid peels, and the latest technology to keep your skin youthful and prevent anti-aging.   P.S. Don't forget to enter your name into my giveaway for five $500 beauty boxes. Entry details included in the episode!   To get today's today's hot tip ‘I Will Teach You To Be Rich', click HERE.  To learn more about Joanna Vargas Skincare, click HERE.  To connect with Joanna, click HERE.  To connect with Siff, click HERE. To learn more about Arrae, click HERE.   To learn more about Icing & Glitter, click HERE.    Produced by Dear Media

Ryan Vargas works his tail off for seat time and to be recognized in NASCAR and it's paid off in some big ways over the last year. Vargas joins the show to discuss the growing amount of seat time he's had this year and what it means to have a driver's notebook; racing with emotion; insight into the home office and his daily task to get in a car; the business of cold calls; if Vargas has any formal training for selling himself and speaking well; the scariness of moving to NC as a teenager; why he thought he was washed up at 18; thoughts on young drivers getting recognized; some on-track highlights that stand out and a keepsake from leading laps at Talladega; what it is like to be a race car driver; why Vargas thinks fans relate to him and he's developed a good following; embracing social media and its many different platforms; looking ahead to 2022.Music created by Tony Monge. Please support my work through Patreon: www.patreon.com/KellyCrandall

This week the boys drink some Stuff of Legend from Boulevard while Brendon tells us what happens to the alcohol after we drink it. Brian asks what the deal with connected media universes is, and Vargas talks about an HBO Max doc.

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Getúlio Vargas foi deposto no dia 29 de outubro de 1945, Milton Teixeira conta os detalhes.

En La W con Julio Sánchez Cristo se puso en duda la relación por una controvertida columna de Germán Vargas Lleras.

Spooky Week rolls on with special guest Greg from First Issue Club! Greg tells us about his scary movie phobia and you know Vargas couldn't miss this opportunity to talk comics, so Greg gives us some spooky suggestions for comics before the boys keep the cryptid train rolling with Greg's favorite: The Jersey Devil.

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This week I eat crow and give Shakur Stevenson his credit for his win over Jamel Herring. With this win will Oscar Valdez stop running and fight him now?  Dillian Whyte has decided to forgo his plan matchup with Otto Wallin to face Tyson Fury instead. Does Wallin have a legit beef with Whyte and his “shoulder” injury?    Also on tap  James & Ennis in action Zepeda vs Vargas in NYC 

O nosso convidado de hoje é o Afonso Oliveira. Afonso é Fundador e CEO do Grupo Anjos da Guarda que há 33 anos atua no segmento de segurança e serviços. Advogado, formado pela Faculdade Milton Campos, com Capacitação em Planejamento Estratégico pela Fundação Dom Cabral e Compliance Anticorrupção pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas, palestrante convidado em diversas instituições com destaque para a Fundação Dom Cabral e os Centros Universitários UNIHorizontes e UNA Membro da Comunidade de Segurança Patrimonial de MG. É também Diretor para assuntos de Mercado, Planejamento e Marketing pelo Sindesp – MG e Idealizador da Universidade Corporativa Anjos da Guarda. Envie o seu áudio para o Whatsapp:(11) 9 8987-7715 e participe conosco, falando sobre o que mais gostou nesse episódio, sugerindo temas e mandando seu recado para o maior podcast de segurança do país. Esse conteúdo é gratuito. E você pode contribuir, para que chegue a mais pessoas, tornando-se membro do CT por menos de 1 real por dia: https://ctseguranca.com.br/seja-membro

This episode begins with Recap from Shakur Stevenson Impressive Outing Against Jamel Herring Along with a few other fights from last Weekend! Also, Preview & Predictions for Showtime & ESPN+ cards featuring James vs Butaev & Zepeda vs Vargas! Other Topics For Dicussion: What's Next For Shakur Stevenson: Oscar Valdez? -Logan Paul vs. Mike Tyson WTF??? -Devin Haney vs Jo Jo Diaz Almost Official?!?! Plus, More Current Fight News & Rumor Mill Items! Subscribe on Apple Podcast (Itunes Rate & Review) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rope-a-dope-radio/id514483886?mt=2  Player.FM  https://player.fm/series/the-rope-a-dope-radio-podcast Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/rope-a-dope-radio--feed  Tunein https://tunein.com/radio/Rope-A-Dope-Radio-p377391/  blogtalkradio.com/ropeadoperadio TheGruelingTruth.Com, Spotify, Spreaker & More! Follow on Twitter @RopeADopeRadio Call 646-381-4990 Listen Live or on Archive!

Após Getúlio Vargas começar uma revolta contra a elite cafeicultora no dia 3 de outubro de 1930, em 24 de outubro a revolução sai vitoriosa.

On episode 287 of The Neutral Corner boxing podcast, host Michael Montero is joined by fellow writer Luke G. Williams, who just wrote an autobiography on former heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi. Afterwards, Montero reviews Shakur Stevenson dominating Jamel Herring in Atlanta, and previews all of this week's match-ups. https://youtu.be/0Cobtr6nnns

Olivia Vargas is in the building for episode 9! Her band, August, recently released a new album. Be sure to check out "Through the Looking Glass" wherever you get your music. Or check out her solo EP, "Songs from My Room". We talked with Olivia about what qualities in songs create musical sweet spots and what is the best way to listen to music. Feel free to email us with comments, suggestions, or questions at mimusicpodcast@gmail.com.

This week the boys throw back some Sea Quench Ale from Dogfish Head and talk about Dune, Great British Bake Off, and Minecraft. Then we get in to the spooky mood when Brian and Brendon recommend some spooky music for Vargas.

1) Discuss Eddie Rosario and how despite having a terrible time in Cleveland, he will make more money in 2022. We also talk about some other old friends Sam Haggerty and James Hoyt. Haggerty the second most successful draft pick from 2015 and Hoyt who the Indians gambled on and got nothing for. Yet we explain why it was the right move. 2) We look at a few more players who were let go before I spend some time on the player who is the most interesting free agent in terms of the Indians, Seiya Suzuki. I explain why I would love to see the Indians be active in the International Market for the first time maybe ever? Masa Kobayashi doesn't count.  3) We talk about some sleepers and get into one Miguel Vargas. He might be the most interesting name on the list and could make a lot of sense as an Indians target. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In episode 35 of Boxing Talk, we discuss the outcome of Herring vs Stevenson bout! We also preview Zepeda vs Vargas, James vs Butaev, and Ennis vs Dulorme. No puede faltar el chisme! (We can't forget the gossip!) Rumor has it that Mayweather is being sued again!Thank you for listening ! "We're not experts, we're just friends!" 

Organizaciones nacionales y regionales del sector privado, se unieron a la condena por las detenciones del presidente y el vicepresidente del Consejo Superior de la Empresa Privada, Michael Healy y Álvaro Vargas.

NASCAR young-gun Ryan Vargas joins hosts Logan Morris and AJ Appeal to discuss his interesting path into motorsports, his unique approach to sponsorship, and details on the TikTok sponsorship from 2020.

El régimen de Daniel Ortega arrestó al presidente y al vicepresidente del Consejo Superior de la Empresa Privada, Michael Healy y Álvaro Vargas, tras ser citados a una entrevista por el Ministerio Público sin que la Fiscalía explicara las razones.

En los últimos cinco años el área de coca cultivada prácticamente se ha duplicado. ¿Quién controlaba el Ministerio del Interior y de Devida? ¿Dónde estaba Rubén Vargas que sale a cacarear todos los días sobre el tema? ¡Usted, Sr. Vargas!

NotiMundo - Paro De Maestros, Isabel Vargas by FM Mundo

On today's chat, Hopper finds out the latest on what's happening at The Source LGBT+ Center with Nick Vargas. Plus agriculture news and another homeowner tip.

10/13/21--This week, Steve shares findings from the latest poll on the Boston mayoral race. He spells out just how strong Michelle Wu's lead is so far over Annissa Essaibi-George, and how likely voters' priorities for the city differ based on who they plan to vote for. Later, Lisa and Steve are joined by state Rep. and member of the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting, Andy Vargas. Rep. Vargas explains the redistricting process, what the goals for redistricting are, and the challenges that the redistricting committee has faced so far. The Texas abortion law instated in early September is one of the strictest measures in the nation, banning abortion at six weeks -- when many women don't even yet know they are pregnant. Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director at NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts explains what it means that this law made it on the books, and what the implications are for the future of Roe v. Wade.

Gabriela Ortiz En Puerto Rico el podcasting es uno de los renglones de los “nuevos medios” que más rezago sufre. Algunos arguyen que se debe a la condición colonial de la Isla, al poco dominio del inglés o al hecho de que nuestras instituciones educativas no lo han tomado en serio. Lo cierto es que en la Isla hay a penas un puñado de podcasts exitosos y —como arguye nuestra invitada de hoy— los medios tradicionales lo ven meramente como un mecanismo de “redifusión” de contenido. El podcasting surgió en los Estados Unidos, en el año 2004, cuando Adam Curry y Dave Winer crearon tanto el contenido inicial como el alimentador RSS que lo distingue de todos los demás medios de comunicación. Sorprendentemente, en la Isla todavía hay medios tradicionales que no entienden lo que es y lo ven como una mera “antena”. La semana pasada tuve en el programa a Enrique Vargas, creador del Observatorio del Podcast de Puerto Rico, una página de Internet donde se enumeran, catalogan y organizan los podcast de origen puertorriqueño. Vargas me contó sobre los escollos que ha tenido que sobrellevar para recopilar la información y la manera en que Puerto Rico es apenas una “grieta” en la “podcasfera” mundial. Para efectos de records, la Isla no es una país y tampoco figura como un estado de los Estados Unidos. Nuestros datos sencillamente se esfuman dentro del mar de podcasts de los Estados Unidos. Enrique me habló de Gabriela Ortiz, una joven puertorriqueña que está haciendo su doctorado en la Universidad de Navarra, en Pamplona, España. ¿Y por qué esta joven es importante? Pues porque la especialidad doctoral de Gabriela va a ser en “podcasting”. A diferencia de Puerto Rico, donde —según Enrique— le dedican unos minutos dentro de una clase de radio al tema del podcasting, en España —y en los Estados Unidos— hay gente especializándose en podcasting a nivel de doctorado. Y por eso mi interés en conversar con Gabriela. Aquellos de ustedes que lleven algún tiempo escuchando Hablando de Tecnología recordarán que en el episodio 156, del 18 de mayo del 2015, traje al programa a la doctora María Blanco, una joven oriunda de Ávila que en esa época estaba completando su doctorado en la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. Pero esta vez se trata de alguien de aquí, como el coquí. /*   Conversé con Gabriela por espacio de dos horas y exploramos el podcasting desde múltiples ángulos. Así que, si entre tu planes está desarrollar un podcast o ya lo comenzaste y te gustaría conocer más sobre este medio emergente, este es un episodio que debes escuchar hasta el final. Enlaces: • Artículo: Retos Del Periodismo En La Era Post Digital (comenzando en la página 171)  OTROS EPISODIOS QUE TE PUEDEN INTERESAR: Consejos Para Hacer Un Buen Podcast La Atención Es El Producto Autoempleo, Cómo Crear Tu Propia Realidad Los Descuidos Digitales Son Costosos Redacción SEO, Al Centro De Todo En La Internet ©2021, Orlando Mergal, MA _________________ El autor es Experto En Comunicación Corporativa (Lic. R-500), Autor de más de media docena de Publicaciones de Autoayuda y Productor de Contenido Digital Inf. 787-306-1590 • 787-750-0000 Divulgación de Relación Material: Algunos de los enlaces en esta entrada son “enlaces de afiliados”. Eso significa que si le das click al enlace, y compras algo, yo voy a recibir una comisión de afiliado. No obstante, tú vas a pagar exactamente lo mismo que pagarías al visitar al comerciante directamente y de manera independiente.  Además, yo sólo recomiendo productos o servicios que utilizo personalmente y que pienso que añadirán valor a mis oyentes. Al patrocinar los productos o servicios que mencionamos en Hablando De Tecnología contribuyes para que el programa continúe. Hago esta divulgación en cumplimiento con con el "16 CFR, Part 255" de la Comisión Federal De Comercio de los Estados Unidos "Guías Concernientes al uso de Endosos y Testimonios en la Publicidad".

So - be honest with us. Are you up to date with your blogging? Or are you like so many of your fellow photographers, so busy working on all the other areas of your business that blogging tends to fall by the wayside. Is blogging even still a thing these days, anyway?! Um yes, yes it is. Tune into our interview with Mikaela Vargas from Pet Marketing Unleashed to learn how you can confidently and efficiently produce blog posts that not only attract your dream clients, but also increase your web traffic and inquiries. We've got news for you - blogging is not dead!IN THE EXTENDED EPISODE:* Simple Blogging SEO* Partnering with other pet businesses through blogposts* How to plan your bloggingClick here to listen to the full extended version of this episode in the MemberzoneLINKS:Website: https://www.petmarketingunleashed.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petmarketingunleashed Unleashed Petpreneurs Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unleashedpetpreneursBlogging for Your Pet Biz: https://shop.petmarketingunleashed.com/blogging-courseFREEBIES FROM MIKAELA:Blog Topic Ideas for Pet Businesses - this freebie also includes a 20% discount for the course! https://www.petmarketingunleashed.com/blog-topicsPartnership Email Template for Pet Businesses - https://www.petmarketingunleashed.com/partnership-template

Vanilla Vargas esta de regreso a la lucha libre y llega para contarnos todo.

Hace unas semanas publicamos un programa sobre cómo establecer los precios en función del salario que queríamos tener mes a mes. Quizás aquellas cuentas hoy se hayan quedado obsoletas debido a la inflación, ausencia de clientes o cualquier otro motivo que te esté impidiendo facturar lo deseado. Es por eso que, si quieres subir los precios, has de saber comunicarlo con honestidad y de la mejor manera posible. En este programa, mi compañero Vargas y un servidor te contamos qué pasos puedes seguir e incluso la manera en la que nosotros subimos el precio de la Academia a primeros de año. Espero de todo corazón que este programa te ayude a conseguir tus objetivos. ¡Dentro podcast!

We are excited to bring you this episode of the #squarepizzapod. This week, Greg is in conversation with Fidel Vargas, President of the Hispanic Scholarship  Fund. One fun fact about Fidel Vargas: In 1992, at age 23, Vargas was elected mayor of Baldwin Park, California becoming the youngest elected mayor in US history.Topics covered in this episode:Centinela Capital Partners - investing and managing nearly $1B in minority owned fundsKobe Bryant and the Mamba Mentality The moment Fidel learned he was admitted to HarvardHis team's work supporting 20,000 HSF scholars HSF receiving a $30M grant to further their technology platformWe hope you enjoy!Support the show (http://Scherm.co)

¡¡Estamos de fiesta jefas!! Celebramos el capítulo 100 de Jefa de tu vida, un podcast que nació como nacen las cosas buenas, por diversión y para tener una excusa para tomarme un café y tener una conversación con gente a la que admiro, sin más. Hoy os traigo un programa muy especial, primera entrevista de su vida a mi hermana Carmina, mi socia y una cara menos visible de Charuca sin la que todo esta aventura no podría existir. Ha sido la primera entrevista de Jefa de tu Vida que no he necesitado prepararme, una charla entre hermanas. Carmina nos hablará de cómo es su día a día en la Charucanave, haremos un repaso por estos siete años con Charuca. También nos contará qué hay detrás de las bambalinas y mil anécdotas sobre todos estos años cuidando juntas este jardín. Me muero porque la escuches así que... ¡dale al play! NOTAS DEL PROGRAMA: TENGO UN DESCUENTO PARA TI EN CHARUCA ¿Sabes que te tengo enchufada? Por escuchar mi podcast tienes un 10% de descuento en www.charucashop.com utilizando el código VENGODELAJEFA. Hola! Puedes escucharlos todos en mi blog, en www.charucashop.com Y también están en Ivoox 😊💖💖💖 www.storytel.com/charuca

Carmela De Vargas was arrested due to a violation of her parole. For 2 months she was incarcerated in Santa Fe county jail. On November 9, 2019 Carmela died as result of failure at the Santa Fe County Detention Center to afford her the necessary medical treatment to save her life. Carmela was not the only individual who passed away from sepsis related infections. Carmela's family had created a petition to start an investigation within the prison regarding this issue. Please like, share, and sign the petition. https://www.change.org/p/registered-voters-of-santa-fe-county-justice-for-carmela-and-rex?recruiter=582913562&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=petition_dashboard&recruited_by_id=74f94cf1-2baa-4455-a972-79406f4df829&utm_content=fht-20904616-en-us%3Av2&fbclid=IwAR3-I0cKfFrlskGElEmtqE6sTfVw57jkb7TgFFrSmk8NbPjGKScxb2-a-8c&use_react=false

This week the boys welcome fall with some ice cold Bob's 47 from Boulevard. Brendon reminds everyone that the Matrix is very good, Brian talks about Star Wars and the universe it built, and Vargas talks about a fancy coffee mug. Make sure to check out @DebatesonTap on twitter for our ongoing spooky recommendations for the month of October!