For ten short years between 1944
and 1954 the poor Central American country of Guatemala was afforded a taste of
freedom, democracy, and social change.
That taste was bitter-sweet, however, since a U.S. backed coup brought
down the democratically elected administration of Pres. Jacabo Abenz. In the wake of the coup of ’54 Guatemala has
once again become the prisoner of ruthless and oppressive tyrants.
www.map.freegk.com/guatemala/guatemala.php
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Works Cited
The following sources were
used to compile this website and are cited throughout
Cullather,
Nick. Secret History: The CIA’s
Classified Account of its Operations in
Guatemala 1952-1954. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1999.
Gleijeses,
Piero. “Agrarian Reforms of Jacabo Arbenz.” Journal of Latin American Studies
21 (1989): 453-478.
Karabell,
Zachary. Architects of Intervention: The
United States, the Third World, and the
Cold War, 1946-1962. Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1999.
McCann,
Thomas P. An American Company: The
Tragedy of United Fruit. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1976.
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