Thursday, September 23, 2010

CIA in Guatemala

In Guatemala, the CIA’s motives followed a similar pattern. President Jacobo Arbenz was popularly elected in 1950. He was known to have established an effective alliance with Communists. What is generally thought to be the reason for US intervention was that the Arbenz government damaged US business interests by the expropriation and redistribution of much of the United Fruit Company’s land in the Agrarian Reform Act of 1952 (Faragher). Guatemala initially planned to compensate UFC with $594,572 in government bonds, but the company valued the land at $15,854,849 ("GUATEMALA: Square Deal Wanted"). The US billed Guatemala for UFC, yet Guatemala denied, claiming violation of its sovereignty. However, this was not the prominent reason for CIA intervention. A plan for Operation PBFortune under the Truman administration had been drafted in 1951, before the UFC expropriation.

8 comments:

  1. the cia is like the mob of the government

    horrible what ex cia have come out and confessed to knowing

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  3. The hand signal for vehicle could be totally misinterpreted.

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  5. Very interesting article and such, but could you show some sources? I'm very interested in this topic around the CIA, some links would be quite nice.

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  6. Sources were all cited in the essay except for the CIA documents which you can sift through on the CIA website. Just look up the authors and the topic.

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  7. Nice. You should post more documents like this.

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