I agree when I listened to the Throughline podcast my understanding of the material was the same. Some saw Minor Keith as a great businessman that brought bananas to the world; and modes of transportation to Costa Rica so they could export their coffee. He was an American who had a plan to make money and create a name for himself there. However, in my opinion the way he went about doing this was awful. Many died, working conditions were awful, and no amount of loss of life mattered as long as he got his railroad going and bananas to the market. The part of the podcast that really stuck out to me was no one wanted to finish working on his railroad because everyone was dying. So, he recruited prisoners to finish it. In return the prisoners got released when the railroad was successfully completed. Out of the 700 prisoners only 25 survived and were actually released. That just goes to show the awful conditions they were working in. I too felt like his ways of getting the banana business up and running or the railroad was quite similar to the federal government interventions in America. Because America used force and political influence to get what they wanted as did Minor Keith. It was certainly a time that benefited the wealthy businessmen and hindered the poor working class that had no voice during this time.