Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: Region and State in Honduras, 1870-1972

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In this new analysis of Honduran social and political development, Dar degreeso Euraque explains why Honduras escaped the pattern of revolution and civil wars suffered by its neighbors Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Within this comparative framework, he challenges the traditional Banana Republic ‘theory’ and its assumption that multinational corporations completely controlled state formation in Central The united states. As an alternative, he demonstrates how local society in Honduras’s North Coast banana-exporting region influenced national political development. In keeping with Euraque, the reformism of the 1970s, which prevented social and political polarization in the 1980s, originated in the local politics of San Pedro Sula and other cities along the North Coast. Moreover, Euraque shows that by the 1960s, the banana-growing areas had turn out to be bastions of liberalism, led by local capitalists and organized workers. This regional political culture right away influenced events at the national level, argues Euraque. Specifically, the military coup of 1972 drew its ideology and civilian leaders from the North Coast, and consequently, the new regime used to be ready to successfully channel popular unrest into state-sponsored reform projects. In keeping with long-ignored sources in Honduran and American archives and on interviews, the book signals a major reinterpretation of brand new Honduran history.

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