The term “banana republic,” coined in 1901 by O Henry, may have been developed in the context of a fictional novel, but it reflects a broader reality across Central America — one shaped by foreign corporate exploitation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when regional economies became dependent on a single crop, bananas, while corporations controlled land, labour, and infrastructure, contributing to political instability that helped cement the term.
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