Banana republic : locut. A banana republic is a state, a corrupt government, where the real power is in the hands of multinational corporations and foreign powers.
Those who have seen the French television programn The Guignols de l'Info on the Canal + channel know the World Company well, the one that wants to dominate the world by exploiting both people and wealth. This is a prime example of a World Company in action.
It was called the United Fruit Company (which has since become Chiquita Brands International, this "Chiquita" that we see on the labels and boxes of certain bananas sold from us).
For fifty years, she financed and manipulated the majority of Latin American dictatorships (in banana-producing countries), on behalf of the United States of America, and she tried to nip all the reforms in the bud. trying to redistribute land to poor peasants so that they could continue to operate the banana plantations freely and underpay the workers who worked there.
It is from this representative example of the large-scale corruption of governments by private interests that this expression was born.