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The political instability consequent to the coup d'état stalled the Honduran economy, and the unpayable external debt (c. US$4 billion) of Honduras was excluded from access to international investment capital. That financial deficit perpetuated Honduran economic stagnation and perpetuated the image of Honduras as a banana republic. [16]
Merged into: Free Soil Party and Republican Party: 1840 1848 Know Nothing Party: 1845–1860 Nativism [74] Merged into: Constitutional Union Party (South) and Republican Party (North) 1844 1860 Free Soil Party: 1849–1857 Abolitionism [75] Merged into: Republican Party: 1848 1855 Union Party: 1851–1853 Conditional unionism [76] 1850 1853 ...
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The Zieglers founded Banana Republic in Mill Valley, California, in 1978. The brand's safari-style clothing was styled by Patricia Ziegler. Mel wrote the catalog. Upon hearing the business's name, a friend told the Zieglers, "Bad choice. You'll be picketed by people from small hot countries." [2]
[35] In this case, the plunder and looting enriches not only high government officials, but a narrow class of plutocrats, who usually represent wealthy individuals and families who have amassed great assets through the usage of political favoritism, special interest legislation, monopolies, special tax breaks, state intervention, subsidies or ...
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In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–1897 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement.
U.S. Marines leaving New York City in 1909 for deployment in Nicaragua. Then-Colonel William P. Biddle, in charge of the detachment, is in civilian clothes at right.. In 1909 Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya of the Liberal Party faced opposition from the Conservative Party, led by governor Juan José Estrada of Bluefields who received support from the U.S. government as a result of ...