Figure 3. Capillary hemangioma in a 4-month-old boy with proptosis of the left eye, inferior displacement of the globe, and a bluish discoloration under the skin. Axial contrast-enhanced CT image depicts an intensely enhancing, irregularly marginated lesion with intraconal (dots) and extraconal (arrows) components.
For other uses, please see Banana republic (disambiguation) . The phrase banana republic was coined (ca. 1904) by the American writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862â1910).Banana republic is a political science term for a politically unstable country, whose economy is largely dependent on exporting a limited-resource product, e.g. bananas.he history of the first banana republic begins with the introduction of the banana to the US in 1870, by Lorenzo Dow Baker, captain of the schooner Telegraph.
VIOLENT, poor and politically wobbly, Honduras meets most peopleâs definition of a banana republic. On Sunday it will hold a closely-fought presidential election, four years after a coup in which the then president was bundled out of the presidential palace in his pyjamas and put on a military plane to Costa Rica.oday, any poor country which is reliant on a single commodity based industry (bananas, coffee, cocoa) is regarded as a banana republic, as the wealth and power of a single MNC from a developed country could over power the resources of that state.