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printer-friendlyHistorical Perspectives
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INTRODUCTION
On June 24, Representative Maurice Hinchey’s office (D-NY) sponsored a congressional briefing entitled “The 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Intervention in Guatemala: A history of regime change, destabilization, and human rights violations.” NISGUA spearheaded the briefing with the co-sponsorship support of the Washington Office. . .
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ALFONSO BAUER PAIZ
During the last century, the people of Guatemala suffered under the arbitrary
and despotic rule of two dictatorships, one of President and lawyer Manuel
Estrada Cabrera and the other of General Jorge Ubico. The first dictatorship
lasted 22 years, the second, fourteen.
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GREG GRANDIN
The CIA’s 1954 overthrow of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz and the ten year democracy he presided over is perhaps the single most important event in 20th-century US-Latin American history.
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IDUVINA HERNANDEZ
Fifty years ago, the CIA carried out Operation PBSuccess in Guatemala. This operation overthrew the legal and democratically-elected government presided over by Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Having illegally caused the downfall of this government, the CIA also quashed changes intended to reform Guatemala into a democratic society respectful of the rights and liberties of its people.
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