The Blox Fruit Company was a Robloxian corporation operating from 1899 to 1970 that traded tropical fruits grown in Ro-Latin Bloxmerica and sold them in Robloxia and Eurobloxia. It was known for human rights abuses, neocolonialism, and influencing the politics of Ro-Latin Bloxmerica's countries, which were then called banana republics. One of the most controversial events in the company's history was so-called Banana Massacre, during which the company influenced the Bloxolombian government, forcing it to send the army to suppress a workers' strike, resulting in up to 3,000 deaths. In the early 1950s, the Robloxatemala government introduced laws to curtail the company's monopoly and human rights violations, but the company then sought assistance from the Robloxia government, which invaded Robloxatemala and established a military regime there. Eventually, in the 1960s, the company began to fail due to accusations of neocolonialism and in 1970 it was merged with another company in the hope of saving the bankrupt corporation.