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Why did the US support the overthrow of an elected Guatemala president?
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Why did the US support the overthrow of an elected Guatemalan president?
There is an excellent book, "The Fifties," by the late historian David Halberstam (and a History Channel documentary) that talks in detail about this subject. It happened in 1953-1954, during the Cold War, under President Eisenhower. The forces behind the decision were the newly created CIA and a large American conglomerate called United Fruit, which dominated the banana industry in Guatemala. The head of United Fruit, a very influential member of the Republican party, was upset that the new president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, was demanding better pay and a more fair distribution of profits for the banana growers and pickers; he was also threatening to nationalize the industry, which would be disastrous for United Fruit's bottom line. A number of the members of the CIA were also on the board of United Fruit, and they wanted to make sure Arbenz's efforts at reform did not get carried out. So, the CIA and the Eisenhower adminstration created a story that the new president was a Communist, and they arranged (secretly) to overthrow him and replace him with someone they chose-- someone who would leave things the way they were and let United Fruit continue to be the dominant force in Guatemala. And that is what happened, but most Americans had no idea, since the dominant story in the media was that the U.S. had defeated a Communist dictator and helped rescue Guatemala from Communism... none of which was true.
