Why name your safari-themed clothing store after a phrase that refers directly to corporation-influenced corruption in Latin America? Banana Republic is a term used to define politically unstable countries often controlled by corporations, such as The United Fruit Company, who profited from cheap labor in Latin American countries, such as Colombia and Guatemala. I sit on the queen bee throne, the protest chair where I make corruption visible. With my eyes blindfolded in the yellow banana scarf, I make a message visible to the blind.