What the records say
- When
- Dec 1928
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100
- Coordinates
- 11.01° N, 74.25° W
- Description
- massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company
Banana Massacre
1928 mass killing of striking United Fruit Company workers in Ciénaga, Colombia
The Banana Massacre was a massacre of workers of the United Fruit Company that occurred between December 5 and 6, 1928, in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. A strike began on November 12, 1928, when the workers ceased to work until the company would reach an agreement with them to grant them dignified working conditions.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “massacre des bananeraies”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Entre el 5 y 6 de diciembre: en la ciudad de Ciénaga (Colombia) ―en el marco del Gobierno «títere» de Miguel Abadía Méndez― la empresa estadounidense United…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page