Stolen Photo

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Status

Released

Production

Señal Colombia

Aired

2024-09-29

Stolen Photo

One hundred years ago. Banana workers went on strike in Colombia. A US-owned fruit company refused to negotiate. A massacre ensued. This is the story of how the Company and the Colombian military used a photograph to identify workers, and how the violence of December 1928 mutated into oblivion.