What is "banana republics"

Usage examples of "banana republics".

If none of those protectorate worlds was precisely a hell-hole, a modern equivalent of the King Leopolds Congo of ancient legend, they did bear a close resemblance to what had once been called banana republics and company towns.

We can be one of those damn banana republics which build palaces while their people are scrabbling for food!

While drawing out Tombstone and getting him to talk about himself, Pamela had argued that carriers were too expensive and too vulnerable, useless high-tech toys in an age when nuclear confrontation with the Soviets was no longer a likely possibility, and when Third World banana republics no longer knuckled under to gunboat diplomacy.

He had left Europe early in the 1920s, had shipped aboard a freighter to Bolivia and, after working his way as common deckhand and laborer through half a dozen banana republics, had been washed up on an inland shore of the United States in 1934.

But there was a doorman, a middle-aged clown dressed in the kind of uniform self-respecting banana republics would have shunned, but suited the kind of humans that dwelt in the building.

Military dictatorships, particularly in the banana republics, did all in their power to remain separate.

Noloff, but twenty-five years of selling heavy road equipment to banana republics had instilled in him a certain dictatorial air.