<P> A mixed history of elected presidents and puppet - master military juntas were the governments of Guatemala in the course of the 36 - year Guatemalan Civil War (1960--96). However, in 1986, at the 26 - year mark, the Guatemalan people promulgated a new political constitution, and elected Vinicio Cerezo (1986--91) president; then Jorge Serrano Elías (1991--93). </P> <P> In the book Canto General (General Song, 1950), the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904--73) denounced foreign multinational corporate political dominance of Latin American countries with the four - stanza poem "La United Fruit Co ."; the second - stanza excerpts read: </P> <P>... The Fruit Company, Inc . </P> <P> Reserved for itself the most succulent, The central coast of my own land, The delicate waist of the Americas . </P>

Where does the saying have a banana come from