Topic: United Fruit Company

Ian Carroll details how the CIA utilized corporate connections to stage coups in countries like Guatemala for the United Fruit Company and Iran for Anglo-Iranian Oil (now BP). He references Operation Mockingbird as the historical project used to buy out and control the American media during the 20th century. Carroll suggests that the current "darkness and silence" surrounding intelligence operations is finally being challenged by the digital age.

Max Keiser discusses El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's "United Fruit Company" tweet as a defiance of US corporate-state interference. He criticizes State Department official Victoria Nuland and links her to historical CIA-backed coups in Latin America. Keiser praises El Salvador's plan to use volcanic energy to mine Bitcoin as a new "declaration of independence."