Stephen E. Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer: Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala

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Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala

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Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic, a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The authors make extensive... (read more)

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“I just finished this one. It is an astounding book about how the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita banana) convinced the United States to covertly conduct a regime change in Guatemala. Although the events in this book took place in the early 1950s, the issues raised in this book are equally important today; including the use of communism (now terrorism) to justify foreign interventions with no international support, the role of corporate involvement in such interventions and the dangers of...”

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