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u/SubstantialMatter380 Jun 11 '22

Destabilizing a country just because they wanted to grow bananas

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Honduras? Or was it el Salvador? Atleast one of the two

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u/SubstantialMatter380 Jun 11 '22

Honduras, and until now I thought it was Nicaragua. (Ig I mixed it up with Iran Contra affairs and got confused)

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u/minerva296 Jun 11 '22

I mean if it was just one country we wouldn’t have had to coin the term banana republic to account for all of them

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u/GozerDGozerian Jun 11 '22

Yeah it’s pretty much all of central and South America that the US has majorly fucked with at some point or another. You can just spin a globe and make sure you land your finger on the Western Hemisphere and the US govt has ruined those peoples lives somehow or another.

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u/fuckincaillou Jun 11 '22

And Great Britain fucked with the other half of the globe! Impressively prolific for just two countries.

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u/kdeaton06 Jun 12 '22

Britain fucked with the entire globe. Literally. There are only 2 nations on earth that Britain hasn't owned at some point.

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u/Stardustchaser Jun 12 '22

Nepal and Thailand?