In 2020 I wrote "Live Free or Die: America (and the World) on the Brink." This is the brink I feared. Are we to remain a constitutional republic, or are we destined to become a banana republic?

It was a time when the United States backed some of the most brutal authoritarian regimes in Latin America ... Trump wants us to become one of those banana republics. Over the weekend, Trump ...

Central America was also a market for the expanding ... monopolies like United Fruit Company — it is the Banana Republic. Because the ruling class is not united in the same way as elsewhere ...

"BANANA republics" refer to politically unstable ... Henry — in his 1904 book "Cabbages and Kings" to describe a fictional country in Central America called Anchuria. As economically ...

In the early days of banana growing in Central America, the grace of Nature likewise played a prominent part in the inception of what was to become a major industry. By the middle of the ...

But these are not banana-exporting countries ... have established suppliers in Central and South America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and the Dominican Republic), and neither experience major ...

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen Americans ... Cohen focuses on Zemurray’s expansion into Central America, and the book’s semi-secret ...

Henry — in his 1904 book "Cabbages and Kings" to describe a fictional country in Central America called Anchuria. As economically impoverished and politically unstable nations ruled by corrupt regimes ...