The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!

Some progress shots:

Welcome to Sasori Week 2023, where we are here to celebrate the one and only Akasuna no Sasori during his birthday week with some new content! This public event will take place from Sunday, November 5th to Saturday, November 11th and is welcoming of all shipping and non-shipping content across the SFW, NSFW, and dead dove spectrum. Please check out the Rules page on our blog for more information on participation and submissions.

Prompts:

Sunday, 11/5 - Preservation / Fear

Monday, 11/6 - Truth / Trapped

Tuesday, 11/7 - Time / Kazekage

Wednesday, 11/8 - Enemy / Love

Thursday, 11/9 - Partners / Fantasy

Friday, 11/10 - Criminals / Family

Saturday, 11/11 - Beauty / Death

“She deserves to be punished too.”

“I’m not saying I support rape, but-”

“Sorry to say - she deserved it.”

“She put herself in harm’s way”

“But if she was fingered, then that’s not rape.”

“She ruined their lives.”

“Yea, but did you see what she was wearing?”

“Boys will be boys!”

“She should know better than to drink at a party…”

  “He should’ve enjoyed it.”

“She must’ve lead him on.”

“But she orgasmed. That means she liked it - “

“Women can’t rape because…”

“Be grateful it wasn’t a man!”

“I’m sorry she hurt you but don’t call what happened to you rape, it’s an insult to the REAL victims…”

“You weren’t raped, you’re just lesbophobic.”

“She’s his wife, it’s her job to please him.”

“Oral isn’t rape.”

“Well he wasn’t armed, she could have walked away.”

“Guys can’t be raped, they love sex!”

“She didn’t fight back; it wasn’t rape.”

Hi! Now you can read NaruFox AU from here!

Start > 1 / 2 and 2.2 / 3 & 3.2 / 4 / 5 / 6 /

Waves Arc > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 /

Extra Content > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 /

Chunin Exams > 1 / 2 / Sand Trio 1 / 2 / 3 / Written Test 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Forest of Death 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Preliminary Fights teams / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / Last Round 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 /

Sannin’s Arc > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 /

Recovery Arc > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / Team / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / Back up /

Valley of the End > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / VotE / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14/ 15/

Conclusion Arc  > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / End.

Kakashi Extra > 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 /