Editing United Fruit Company (section)

{{Evil Organization
|Box title    = Evil Organization
|Image    = United Fruit Company.jpg
|fullname = United Fruit Company 
|alias = UFC<br>''"El Pulpo"''
|origin = Boston, Massachusetts, United States 
|foundation = March 30, 1899
|commanders =multiple executives 
|agents =workers 
|skills =alliances with the army<br>knowledge in finance 
|goals = Advance U.S. interests in Central and South America (successful)
|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Pollution]]<br>Bribery<br>[[Slavery]]<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Illegal drug trade|Drug trafficking]]<br>Unlawful land seizure<br>[[Arms trafficking]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Genocide]]
|type of villain = Corporate Imperialists
}}The '''United Fruit Company''' was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899, from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, the Caribbean coast of Colombia and the West Indies. 

Though it competed with the Standard Fruit Company (later Dole Food Company) for dominance in the international banana trade, it maintained a virtual monopoly in certain regions, some of which came to be called banana republics, such as Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala.