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I’m getting frustrated. Our author is entertaining and appalling us with a litany of CIA misdeeds, but isn’t adequately explaining the why of things.
In Guatemala, what was so bad about Arbenz? As seen here, he wasn’t a communist or Soviet stooge: the CIA had to manufacture the communist threat.
Perhaps the Wikipedia page hit the crux: his land reform policies annoyed the United Fruit Company.
— Jan 04, 2023 11:34PM
In Guatemala, what was so bad about Arbenz? As seen here, he wasn’t a communist or Soviet stooge: the CIA had to manufacture the communist threat.
Perhaps the Wikipedia page hit the crux: his land reform policies annoyed the United Fruit Company.
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