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Yeah pretty sure it's mostly racism that makes people assume all banana producing countries are run by rich white men, also the assumption that people in those countries don't want to engage in trade like everyone else does.
Reality is bananas are currently cheap because they grow well and transport easily, also because cargo is very cheap thanks to giant shipping containers. The same reason goods made in the rest of the world are available to people in banana farms - the fact no one has any reason to doubt you're from a banana producing country is testament to the benefit two way trade has made us all. Your phone is probably newer than mine, you can use it to look up all the same information and entertainment as me living in one of the most colonialist countries - things have changed so much for the better and pretending it hasn't is a major flaw in a lot of people's thinking at the moment.
And of course that doesn't change history but moving forward is far more important than whatever it is the people angry at bananas want us to worry about.