Banana Workers

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Banana Workers Village

on

Bastimentos Island

near

Bocas de Toro, Panama

 

village of banana workers

 

boat from United Fruit Company
picks up the day workers from this pier

 

houses are often built over the water

 

 

the people came from the West Indies to work nearby banana fields,
but after a root disease, the bananas were planted further away,
so travel to work by boat is required

 

 

no roads, just transport by boat

 

homes along the shore

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