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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @andr3 OP 26 Mar 2022 freebie \ parent \ on: Honduras chose wrong. Thought El Salvador would be a strong enough influence. Sadly I was wrong:( bitcoin

I've never heard of these banana incidents, what's that about?

51 sats \ 3 replies \ @zuspotirko 26 Mar 2022

Basically I am refering to a series of many US interventions into middle-america to support the american banana companies. The most famous of these is probably Guatemala, but Honduras was aweful too - it is also the origin of the term "banana republic"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

Honduras, where the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company dominated the country's key banana export sector and associated land holdings and railways, saw insertion of American troops in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925. The writer O. Henry coined the term "Banana republic" in 1904 to describe Honduras

If you want to know more about this I can recommend this video about Guatemala. More or less the same story happened in all of these countries - history does not repeat itself, it rhymes: US companies acquiring land, lots of debt to the US, corruption, coup d'états and one catastrophe after another.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @andr3 OP 26 Mar 2022

America being America huh lol. This definitely interests me, thanks for the links! I'm gonna watch that vid soon