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  2. Banana republic - Wikipedia

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    Cover of Cabbages and Kings (1904 edition). In the 20th century, American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862–1910) coined the term banana republic to describe the fictional Republic of Anchuria in the book Cabbages and Kings (1904), [1] a collection of thematically related short stories inspired by his experiences in Honduras, whose economy was heavily dependent on the export of ...

  3. United Fruit Company - Wikipedia

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    After the peak of the banana republic era, resistance eventually began to grown on the part of small-scale producers and production laborers, due to the exponential rate in growth of the wealth gap as well as the collusion between the profiting Honduran government officials and the U.S. fruit companies (United Fruit Co., Standard Fruit Co ...

  4. Banana Wars - Wikipedia

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    The term "banana wars" was popularized in 1983 [2] by writer Lester D. Langley. Langley wrote several books on Latin American history and American intervention, including:The United States and the Caribbean, 1900–1970 and The Banana Wars: An Inner History of American Empire, 1900–1934. His work regarding the Banana Wars encompasses the ...

  5. The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard Of - AOL

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    On this day in economic and financial history ... The United Fruit Company was formed on March 30, 1899, the result of a merger between the nearly bankrupt Tropical Trading and Transport Company ...

  6. List of fictional countries in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Curaguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in the episodes 26 and 27 of the season 2, and in the episode 5 of the season 3, of the TV series Hunter; Curuguay: a generic Latin American banana republic seen in The A-Team. A similar country of the same name is mentioned in the first episode of season 2 of the TV series The Equalizer

  7. B-a-n-a-n-a-s? Candidate’s ‘joke’ about Banana Republic ...

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    Banana Republic confusion aside, NC candidate Bo Hines is just one of the candidates calling for action after the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search.

  8. 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    Guatemala was among the Central American countries of the period known as a banana republic. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] From 1890 to 1920, control of Guatemala's resources and its economy shifted away from Britain and Germany to the U.S., which became Guatemala's dominant trade partner. [ 8 ]

  9. Banana Republic's bold move just changed Fashion Week forever

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