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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