During the beginning of the twentieth century, the United Fruit Company emerged as the largest North American banana importer in Honduras. United Fruit came to ...
Economy
2001 Economic Crisis
On May 29, 2000, Argentina declared a 649 million pound spending cut, thus spurring a protest of 20,000 people in opposition to the cuts (“Timeline: Argentina's ...
Abolition of Slavery in Puerto Rico
While the rest of Latin America was going through a period of great progress from the 1850s to 1880s, Puerto Rico was still under Spanish rule, which meant that ...
