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Bananas particularly are a case where this is blindingly obvious.
by morelisp 4y ago
Bananas particularly are a case where this is blindingly obvious.
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- aga98mtl 4y agoPlease elaborate. How would stopping banana cultivation help any of those countries?
- abrichr 4y agoHistorically it would have meant avoiding a coup of the locally elected democratic government (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic 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.