Editing Sam Zemurray (section)

=== Guatemalan coup ===
In 1953, the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]] and United Fruit embarked on a major [[public relations]] campaign to convince the American people and the rest of the U.S. government that Colonel [[Jacobo Arbenz]] intended to make Guatemala a Soviet "satellite".  Zemurray authorized [[Edward Bernays]] to launch a propaganda campaign against Col. Arbenz's democratically elected government, which intended to expropriate some of the unused land owned by the United Fruit Co. and redistribute it to the local peasants. In 1954, the campaign succeeded and the U.S. [[Central Intelligence Agency]] helped orchestrate a coup that replaced Arbenz with a military junta led by Col. [[Carlos Castillo Armas]].<ref name="BusWk">{{cite web|last=Grushkin|first=Daniel|title=Book Review: 'The Fish That Ate the Whale,' by Rich Cohen|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-07/book-review-the-fish-that-ate-the-whale-by-rich-cohen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608223750/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-07/book-review-the-fish-that-ate-the-whale-by-rich-cohen|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 8, 2012|publisher=[[Businessweek.com]]|date=June 7, 2012}}</ref>

Zemurray retired as president of United Fruit in late 1951.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unitedfruit.org/zemurray.htm|title=United Fruit Company - Samuel Zemurray|website=www.unitedfruit.org|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>  He and his family made generous donations to [[Tulane University]] (including a large collection of Mayan artifacts discovered in banana fields), the [[Zamorano]] Pan-American Agricultural School, and to other philanthropic ventures, including the [[Zionism|Zionist movement]] through his personal acquaintance, beginning in the 1920s, with [[Chaim Weizmann]].  Zemurray supported President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] policies,<ref name="BusWk" /> helping to draft the [[Agricultural Adjustment Act|Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] industry codes, and contributed financially to left-wing causes, such as ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Buiso | first=Emily | title=Banana Kings: The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry. | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/banana-kings/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003014452/https://www.thenation.com/article/banana-kings/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=2018-10-03 | magazine=[[The Nation]] | date=March 17, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Samuel Zemurray (1877-1961)|url=http://www.unitedfruit.org/zemurray.htm|publisher=United Fruit Historical Society|year=2001}}</ref>[[File:United Fruit Co., N.O., La LCCN2007662185.tif|center|thumb|900x900px|United Fruit ships in New Orleans, circa 1910]]