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A place of old, rustic buildings, military dictators and more American missionaries (doctors, etc.) than you can shake an M16 at. Also a good place to find great big wildlife, be it of Earth origin- or extra-terrestrial.
The [[Banana Republic]] part is now highly inaccurate in [[Real Life]] - Your Mileage May Vary about Honduras being the only military dictatorship left, and even that is a recent development. The South American countries are, generally speaking, stable democracies. It's rather [
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* ''Salvador''
* ''[[Predator]]''
** [[Shout
* Bogota got this treatment in ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]''. The locals were not very pleased.
* San José, Costa Rica in ''[[Jurassic Park]]''. Because certainly a small modern city in the middle of a valley surrounded by mountains looks like a Hawaiian beach resort.
** On the other hand, the [[Adaptation Displacement|book]] does take care in portraying Costa Rica as a stable nation and leading economy in the region with notable achievements in nature conservation and health care. [[Did Not Do the Research|And, well]], [[They Just Didn't Care|an Airforce, too]].[
* ''The Dancer Upstairs'' (John Malkovich's directorial debut)
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''Lima: Breaking the Silence''
* Vilena in ''[[The Expendables]]''
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* ''[[MacGyver]]'', a number of occasions.
* ''[[Airwolf]]''
* ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]''
* An episode of ''[[JAG]]'' takes place in the American embassy in Peru.
* Played for laughs with Catalina's unnamed native country in ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''.
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== Music ==
* Swedish singer/poet/whatever Evert Taube had many songs set in
* Chicago-based alt-rock band The Biochem Wars has two songs ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8dkGEF7-_M See the Red Sun] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CngiBJHIDTY Waves and Rocks, Sea and Fire]) set in Costa Rica, inspired by a hiking excursion the lead singer took there.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Mummy
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