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A "banana republic" is a derogatory term for any badly-run, corrupt, poor country typically in the Caribbean or Latin America. Usually such a state would be a republic with a corrupt and authoritarian political leadership and stereo-typically the main product would be the farming of a cash-crop such as bananas. The phrase probably comes from the inter-war period when the USA through the company United Fruit made many caribbean countries (such as pre-revolution Cuba) totally dependent on the USA for exports with the USA maintaining client regimes in those countries.
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No, the banana republic is a derogatory term for parts of Central America, originated in Honduras. It was in Honduras that the United Fruit Company dominated the country's key banana export sector and support sectors such as railways. The United Fruit Company was nicknamed "The Octopus" for its willingness to involve itself in politics, sometimes violently. The directors of United Fruit played a role in convincing the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that the government of Colonel Arbenz in Guatemala was secretly pro-Soviet, thus contributing to the CIA's decision to assist in overthrowing Arbenz's government in 1954. Banana republic is often used to imply gross inefficiency, corruption, and powerlessness, as well as oppression (government sponsored death squads).

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it can refer to any politically unstable country that depends on exports of limited items, such as bananas. The country is a commercial enterprise for private profit. Examples are Guatemala and Honduras and historically some west Indian islands

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-nounUsually Disparaging.

any of the small countries in the tropics, esp. in the Western Hemisphere, whose economies are largely dependent on fruit exports, tourism, and foreign investors.

- derogative for a politically unstable country, usually in latin america, which government is oppressive and corrupt . It has nothing to do with fruits or tourism.

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