(CNN Español) – In honor of President Donald Trump’s followers of the Capitol in this Wednesday, President George W. Bush compares this act of internal terrorism to what he did in the “banana republics.”
“Laura and you are living the scenes of chaos that unfold in the governorate of our nation with incredulity and consternation,” Bush wrote in a statement on Wednesday. «It’s a spectacular and disgraceful spectacle. This is how the results of the elections in a banana republic are disputed, not in our democratic republic ».
Bush used the “Banana Republic” in contrast to democracy. This is a term that has been used since the mediation of sail XX to describe unstable, corrupt and including corrupt lands. According to CNN’s Spanish political analyst Jorge Dávila Miguel, a term to “insult” the dignity of the country.
“The term is despicable, inferior to what is considered the United States,” said Dávila Miguel. “It is an insult to the dignity of this country.”
The term was originally credited by the estranged writer William Sydney Porter, alias O. Henry, in the book “The Almirante”, published in 1904. With this, Davila explained, he referred to this type of unstable and dominated countries by EE.UU .. In this account O. Henry has a imaginary state sometido a fruit export company.
“A ‘banana republic’ is a contemptuous term for a civic or political league. But disorganization can only be achieved through a “national political ideological ideological code”, also known as the political presence of the [empresas] North American banana growers who influence to maintain proper conditions in the trade and exploitation of plantation dikes », says Dávila Miguel.
The “Banana Republics”
The banana republics are the states of Central America, independent of the principles of sail XIX, where the planet is cultivated, and that EE.UU. moves practically as a proprietary territory. Some private companies use to dominate these territories, as in the case of Costa Rica and Guatemala, among others.
The “Banana Republics” are the lands of the Occidental Hemisphere that were dominated by the United Fruit Company hacia finals of Sail XIX and Principles of XX, written by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan in The New York Times: The company was “more powerful than many national states” … Una ley en sí misma y acostumbrada a considerar a las repúblicas com su su feudo privado ».
The United Fruit Company is expanding into Central American countries to create plateaus, forcing indigenous peoples of some countries such as Panama and Costa Rica to complete their fines, recounting the 2018 documentary produced by Deutsche Welle entitled “On Bananas and Republicans. With this life “the ruin has little planters who do not want to give up their banana plantations”.
However, it is not that this is “exceptional internationalism” that, according to Bush, is the responsibility of the EU. in those lands in subdesarrollo.
“It’s a huge part of its value from the ‘banana republics’ where the agricultural workers work for both low wages and infamous social and labor conditions for a bourgeois mayor’s import of hermoso and sabrous fruit,” he said.
It is said that a banana republic “is caused by the neo-colonial dominion”, says the expert.
Other politicians compared to EE.UU. with «Banana Republics»
President Bush has not been the only one to criticize Trump’s governing body and comparatively compare it to the term in question.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Trump’s frequent critic, said in November’s finals on CNN’s State of the Union program’s that Trump’s support for desecrating presidential elections, like Joe Biden’s, was similar to seen in a «Banana Republic». Including Trump’s friend, New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s call for Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani,’s cohorts as a ‘national merger’ for these people.
Pero Trump’s intervention in the elections is not the only time he has been criticized for running EE.UU. as a “Banana Republic”. Also released in September 2019 is the EE.UU district court. Reggie Walton accuses Donald Trump of entering into judicial investigations.
Walton compared the entourage of the White House to an investigation by FBI Director Andrew McCabe into a “banana republic” and accused all social workers of “integrity” in the judicial process.
“It is not uncommon for a person to like the thing that binds someone to the power, basically trying to dictate if something should be investigated,” Walton said in a legal document. “I believe it is a ‘Banana Republic when we are on this truck’.