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2006-12-05 13:01:01 · 1 answers · asked by Alexandra V 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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Its Arbenz.
Primarily because large US corporations, especially United Fruit, felt that Arbenz was a Socialist who was going to be a threat to their future profitability.
This was during the era when the CIA were the muscle for corporate America, and took down people who were "too red."

Wikipedia has a good bio on Arbenz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Arbenz_Guzm%C3%A1n

Here is a good leftist history of the coup in Guatemala:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKarbenz.htm

And another from demopedia:
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php?title=Jacobo_Arbenz_Guzm%C3%A1n&printable=yes

2006-12-07 04:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0 0

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