Criticism on the poem United Fruit Company by Pablo Nerudo

The poem The United Fruit Company by Pablo Nerudo is an example of post colonialism as a literary theory. The historical background of the poem reveals how The United Fruit Company, an American Corporation that traded tropical fruit specifically bananas and pineapples, used their power to dictate, manipulate, and exploit citizens trough working in their corporation. Workers rights are not followed and instead of the promise of good fortune, they were maltreated and abused by the corporation. In the first part of the poem, it describes how these big companies emerged and also, it mentioned ‘The united Fruit Company reserved for its self the most juicy piece’ which is Central America. In the succeeding lines, the narrator introduced how this company overpowered the people and finds its way in capturing them through false promises, fooloing those people. In the third stanza;

attracted the dictatorship of the flies,
Trujillo flies, Tacho flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies
Ubico flies, damp flies
of modest blood and marmalade,
drunken flies who zoom
over the ordianry graves,
circus flies, wise flies
well trained in tyranny. 

Neruda references Trujillo, Tacho, Carias, Martinez, and Ubico, who were all Central and South American dictators, in lines 21-23 in his poem because this company enforced American imperialistic politics in the region during the red scare. The word ‘flies’ as symbolism was disgust or annoyance, such symbolism develops the tone which is ironic and is a dominant element of the poem. The author also used metaphors and similes to convey ideas in a figurative and artistic way. In the last lines, ‘Corpse rolls, a thing without name, a discarded number, a bunch of rotten fruit thrown on the garbage heap’ metaphor was used to describe or narrate the how the natives worked hard for the corporation until they suffer and eventually die. The words that suggests the innocence of the natives like ‘modest’, ‘delicate’  resulting to the abuse of their rights serves as motifs in the poem that helps develop the concept and the tone.