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A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favoured economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public ...
Gap Inc. The Gap, Inc., [ 6] commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap (stylized as GAP ), is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer. Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company operates four primary divisions: Gap (the namesake banner), Banana Republic ...
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe.
The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934. [ 1] The military interventions were primarily carried out by the ...
Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler. Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler are American businesspeople, whom are also married. They were the founders of Banana Republic, a clothing and accessory retailer. [1] Alongside William Rosenzweig, they also co-founded The Republic of Tea. They eventually sold both companies.
v. t. e. The participation of the United States in regime change in Latin America involved US-backed coup d'états which were aimed at replacing left-wing leaders with right-wing leaders, military juntas, or authoritarian regimes. [ 1] Intervention of an economic and military variety was prevalent during the Cold War.
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Banana Republic, by Francesco De Gregori and Lucio Dalla (1979) "Banana Republic" (song), a 1980 single by The Boomtown Rats "Banana Republics", a song by Steve Goodman, Jim Rothermel, and Steve Burgh (1976) Film. Bananas, a 1971 comedy film by Woody Allen, set in a fictional banana republic; Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary