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Central America · early 1900s
The United Fruit Company owned the land, the railroads — and the governments they fed.
The arrangement
Somebody always got the beach chair.
The arrangement
Somebody always swung the pick.
The pitch
Liberty, brought to you by fruit. A conquest, drawn as a cartoon.
The map
Guatemala. Honduras. Cuba. Priced like produce.
That contrast is the point
The bright colors
were the alibi.
So we drew it back
Every icon,
a wink.
Paradise, told honestly — and worn loud.
Baja Llama · A true story you can wear
Looks like paradise, doesn't it?
The whole idea
We didn't clean up the story.
We made it wearable.
Every piece in La República Bananera is drawn from the real iconography of the banana republics — the ads, the flags, the fruit-company saints — redrawn by hand as a wink you can wear. Bright colors that once sold a fantasy, turned back on themselves. Look twice. That's the whole point.
Go Far · Say Yes · Do Cool Shit · Fight Against Boring
Wear the story.
The collection · live on bajallama.com
