pictured here on the screen is united fruit's former corporate headquarters in new orleans.it was just three blocks away from the city's first skyscraper. it was built, as you can see, in 1920. and it was also ten stories tall. a skyscraper of its day. and it's still there. it has this beautiful facade. and if you walk around the central business district of new orleans, you could find this building is no longer united. fruit's headquarters. as we'll see down the road. by the 19 tens, the murray was more or less the most powerful man in central america. certainly in honduras,lthough he didn't live there, he lived here in new orleans. in 1912. he evenith the help of the united states government, enacted a coup, a military and political coup that tossed out the honduran government. anreplaced it with his own personally installed and chosen president. this president answeredirectly to sam, the banana man. if you've ever heard the term banana republic, not the clothing outlet. right, but the political social and economic international term banana republic. this is it's origins.