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aga98mtl
on Jan 16, 2023
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Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston superm...
Please elaborate. How would stopping banana cultivation help any of those countries?
abrichr
on Jan 16, 2023
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Historically it would have meant avoiding a coup of the locally elected democratic government (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
).
To be fair, it's not clear whether it would have had any impact by the late 20th century.
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