‘Banana Republic’: A Label That Every Country Wants to Avoid A public fight over the U.S.-Israel relationship has highlighted a derogatory term for small countries By ...

These days, “banana republic” is rarely used in everyday speech in reference to another country; politicians and journalists have been using it more frequently to describe the U.S. in the wake ...

The first country to be described as a "banana republic," albeit in a roundabout way, was Honduras, writes T.W. for The Economist, which traditionally does not publish full bylines.

When someone mentions a “banana republic,” they’re referring to a small, poor, politically unstable country that is weak because of an excessive reliance on one crop and foreign funding.

Of those countries, since 1990, Ecuador defaulted in 2000 and 2008; ... Most banana republics have their affairs in much better order than that. About the Author. David A. Graham.

Republican North Carolina congressional candidate Bo Hines said in a recent interview that referring to the U.S. as a banana republic is “an insult to Banana Republics across the country.&#82… ...

Re “Our Banana Republic,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Nov. 7): In an otherwise excellent column about inequality in the United States, Mr. Kristof refers to Venezuela as a “banana ...

According to too many Republicans, only “third world” countries and “banana republics” indict former leaders. That’s the opposite of the truth. May 31, 2024, 11:06 AM EDT.

In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series of short stories, most famously in one about the fictional country of Anchuria.It was ...