Welcome to "Farms and Frontlines," the podcast where we dive deep into the complex and critical issues surrounding global food security. Hosted by a former Congressional Staffer and a History Professor at West Point Military Academy, this show brings together a unique blend of expertise and perspectives to shine a light on one of the most interesting challenges of our time. We dive into history, lay out current issues, ask questions, and explore potential solutions and problems in conflict areas.
Farms and Frontlines
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Welcome to "Farms and Frontlines," the podcast where we dive deep into the complex and critical issues surrounding global food security. Hosted by a former Congressional Staffer and a History Professor at West Point Military Academy, this show brings together a unique blend of expertise and perspectives to shine a light on one of the most interesting challenges of our time. We dive into history, lay out current issues, ask questions, and explore potential solutions and problems in conflict areas.
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Recent Episodes
June 15, 2026
Blessed are the Activists with Dr. Michael Cangemi
<p>After the CIA-backed coup that transformed Guatemala, what happened to the people left behind? Historian Dr. Michael Cangemi joins Farms & Frontlines to explore activism, faith, indigenous self-determination, and the remarkable story of Father Greg and the community of San Lucas Tolimán. This is a story not just about Cold War intervention, but about what ordinary people do when confronted with injustice.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="farmsandfrontlines.aubstack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Follow our newsletter!</a></p><p><br></p><p>Buy <a href="https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Blessed-Activists/Michael-J-Cangemi/9780817361266" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">"Blessed are the Activists"</a>.</p>
May 25, 2026
Guatemala: From Postal Service to Coup d'etat
<p>In 1901, the Guatemalan government hired the United Fruit Company to deliver its mail. It seemed like a practical arrangement — a cash-strapped government, a well-organized American company with logistics infrastructure already in place across the Caribbean. Attached to the contract were land grants. Small parcels, at first.</p><p>By 1950, United Fruit owned 42% of all Guatemalan land. 85% of it sat uncultivated.</p><p>In this episode, Max and Jess trace how a postal contract became the foundation of an economic empire — and how that empire, when threatened by a democratic land reform law, triggered the CIA's first successful coup d'état. We cover the concession system that built El Pulpo, the October Revolution that briefly interrupted it, Jacobo Árbenz and Decree 900, Edward Bernays and the manufacture of a Cold War emergency, and Operation PB Success — the covert operation that reversed it all in a matter of days.</p><p>We also follow the thread forward. From Bananagate to a 2024 federal jury finding Chiquita Brands liable for funding a paramilitary death squad in Colombia, the structural logic that organized United Fruit's operations in Central America didn't disappear when the Marines went home. It traveled.</p><p>The Banana Wars officially ended in 1934. Guatemala shows what that actually meant.</p><p>Farms and Frontlines is supported by our newsletter at <a href="farmsandfrontlines.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">farmsandfrontlines.substack.com</a> — sources, photos, maps, and more for every episode.</p><p></p>
May 11, 2026
Nicaragua: The Man Who Said No to Empire
<p>In 1927, every faction in Nicaragua agreed to peace on American terms. Every faction except one. Augusto César Sandino returned to the mountains of Las Segovias and spent the next seven years proving that the United States Marine Corps could not make him come down.</p><p>This episode, Max and Jessica trace how Nicaragua — a country whose major crop was coffee, not bananas — got pulled into the orbit of American empire anyway. From Cornelius Vanderbilt's transit corridor to the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, from the Marines' failed aerial bombardment campaign to the journalist who found Sandino when the military couldn't, Nicaragua is the story of what happens when the system meets someone who simply refuses to cooperate with it.</p><p>And when Sandino finally did come down from the mountains? The man who killed him became Nicaragua's dictator for twenty years. The revolution that ended his dynasty named itself after the man he murdered.</p><p>Also: the banana that everyone ate before 1950 was called Big Mike, and it's gone forever. It's all connected.</p><p><a href="farmsandfrontlines.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Sign up for our newsletter!</a></p>
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