How refrigeration revolutionised global trade

Last update 17:00 | 20/11/2017  vietnamnet

“Crazier than a half dozen opium-smoking frogs.” That’s how one observer described Guatemala’s former President Gen Jorge Ubico.

Global trade, refrigeration revolutionised
Bananas’ limited shelf-life meant they weren’t likely to survive an onward journey from the port where they docked — Photo: ALAMY

The general liked to dress up as Napoleon Bonaparte, and may even have believed himself to be Bonaparte, reincarnate.

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