Word: tre
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom for U.S. commerce...