English-Spanish translations for banana republic

• república bananera
  Es incomprensible que pueda celebrarse un acuerdo con una república bananera jurídico política. It is incomprehensible that an agreement can be entered into with a juridico-political banana republic.
  Insisto en que esto ha ocurrido , no en alguna república bananera del mundo en desarrollo, sino en uno de los Estados miembros de la Unión Europea. I emphasise that this happened not in some sort of developing world banana republic, but in one of the Member States of the European Union.
  Y así se continúa con una larga serie de comentarios mordaces que -al leerlos - dan la impresión de que estamos hablando de una república bananera sudamericana. There then follows a long list of incisive observations which, on being read, give the impression of our being concerned here with a South American banana republic.

Definition of banana republic

• A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government

Related words

• banana bread
• banana tree
• false banana tree