w37day4

One gene makes one protein; in order to achieve this it will require other proteins as well. Body as one. By the same token we need to see mankind as one. Trade wars fought to keep an economy of a nation over a single commodity shall never run a striaght course.
Tailpiece: Chiquita is a brandname for bananas owned by a Cincinatti based company United Fruit Company. In the early 1950s the company was threatened by the policy of the then Prime Minister Jacobo Arbanez of Gautemala who wanted to redistribute the land. The company was able to press the US government to bail it out. At a time cold war being fought in right earnest the US Government saw red: thwarting a US company was as good as a communist take over. So the Arbanez regime had to go. The CIA staged a coup and Arbanez was overthrown. The company was saved for the time being. But before long it had a tariff war on its hands. Besides there were too many pulls and pressures from other quarters that the company could not foresee or forestall effectively.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union market opprtunities that opened from Eastern Europe was great. Then came the threat of EU becoming a major player. With such momentous changes old pre-war linkages sent trade patterns topsy-turvy.
Anyway in 2001 the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. (Cf. Week 19 –2nd day)
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