WI: Pepsi Takes Over the Guatemalan Government

Arkenfolm

Kerguelen said:
Chiquita Banana and Coca-cola were one of the top hundred businesses of 1980 along with Pepsi. Don't forget that Pinochet and Reagan are still in power during this decade. Needless to say, they'll be getting all the help they need to make the United Fruit Company great again.
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I misread your OP and imagined the Soviets supporting Pepsi to remove Rios Montt. I don't know what difference some Pepsi filibusters will make in the Guatemalan Civil War if not to remove Rios Montt in favour of a more moderate figure who might not be so inclined to kill tens of thousands of people.
 

manav95

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It'd be even cooler if the Coca Cola company allied with Marxist rebels against the Pepsi run government. Then it would be like a civil war with 2 American companies fighting each other.

This just gave me an idea for a not so ASB TL.
 
Kerguelen

Kerguelen

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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

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Wait. So, I totally forgot that Coca-Cola created Fanta for the Soviets. Perhaps they could get paid in the same way as Pepsi?
 

Loghain

Banned
Kerguelen said:
Okay, I've decided to call it 'El Asesino Azúcarado' which is literally Spanish for 'The Sweet Killer'. Please don't steal my idea or I'll send my army of child mercenaries to your doorstep.
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What have done ? IT ITS MARVELOUS. SIMPLY MARVELOUS.
HAHAHAHAHA
 

Archibald

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So the POD is that Pepsi goes nuts and doesn't sold the submarines for the value of scrap metal to Swedish breakers - but instead tries to sell the submarines to whoever interested. Ooookaaaay. I think the State Department will hit the roof. PEPSI WTF are you doing, smuggling submarines ? really ?

Unless of course the CIA shows interest in those subs for covert ops.

Hey, how about including the submarines into the Iran-Contra arm deal ? have some private company funded by the CIA to buy the subs from Pepsi, then refurbish the subs and finally, use the fleet to smuggle weapons to the infamous Contras.

You may know that South american drug dealers are building small submarines to smuggle heroin and cocain into the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

I can see the CIA approaching Pepsi under the umbrella of a fake company, either a scrap company or talk about a museum ship.
Sounds absurd ? not with the CIA at the controls. Not during Cold War.
 
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Somedevil

Archibald said:
So the POD is that Pepsi goes nuts and doesn't sold the submarines for the value of scrap metal to Swedish breakers - but instead tries to sell the submarines to whoever interested. Ooookaaaay. I think the State Department will hit the roof. PEPSI WTF are you doing, smuggling submarines ? really ?

Unless of course the CIA shows interest in those subs for covert ops.

Hey, how about including the submarines into the Iran-Contra arm deal ? have some private company funded by the CIA to buy the subs from Pepsi, then refurbish the subs and finally, use the fleet to smuggle weapons to the infamous Contras.

You may know that South american drug dealers are building small submarines to smuggle heroin and cocain into the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

I can see the CIA approaching Pepsi under the umbrella of a fake company, either a scrap company or talk about a museum ship.
Sounds absurd ? not with the CIA at the controls. Not during Cold War.
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looks like the subs became part of the deal in very end of the 80's early 90's
 

James Ricker

Coke would find out what they were doing in Guatemala and leak all the dirty details to the press.The sales of Pepsi would plumet and Coke sales would increase.
 
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