Honduras: Did you know the "Banana Republic" label, once derisive, is now sometimes embraced with irony? Is this reclaiming of narrative power, or a perpetuation of harmful stereotypes? #History #LatinAmerica

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What if irony isn't resistance, but a disguise we wear to cope with a story we were never meant to own?

In Honduras, that story is still alive.

Ramón Amaya Amador’s Prisión Verde wasn’t just about banana plantations. It was about narrative control — about workers living inside a foreign myth, told in a language they didn’t choose.