Blood & Fruit
What does a forty-seven-cent banana have to do with war, citizenship, and a mother's next meal? In this fictional audio drama, two community-college classmates confront American power in Latin America from very different places. Elena reads Smedley Butler's argument that war can serve commercial interests. Valentina, a Venezuelan immigrant rebuilding her professional life, hears hope in her mother's voice and cannot afford to treat that hope as an abstraction.
Set against the events discussed in January 2026, Blood & Fruit brings Butler's critique, the 1928 banana massacre, and the…
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