"Banana Republic" isn't a joke. It’s a literal forensic description of the United States violently erasing a democracy to protect a fruit monopoly. In 1954, the CIA orchestrated a military coup in Guatemala for one reason: the newly elected president touched the profit margins of the United Fruit Company. The US military acted as the private Pinkertons for a corporate balance sheet. We bled to protect their bananas. The racket just went global.

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