The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?

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    5 months ago

    Haiti accumulated massive debt to European countries by 1914,

    Weird way of putting it.

    Haiti had massive debt thrust upon it by France’s insistance that Haitians pay the French reparations for refusing to be their plantation slaves any longer.