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Subject: Guatemalan coup dtat
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jlh1182 4.05.12 - 12:26pm
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d'tat_ * +
jlh1182 4.05.12 - 12:28pm
The 1954 Guatemalan coup dtat (1827 June 1954) was the CIA covert operation that deposed President Jacobo rbenz Guzmn, with Operation PBSUCCESS, paramilitary invasion by an anti-Communist army of liberation. * +
jlh1182 4.05.12 - 12:29pm
The politically liberal rbenz Government had effected the socio- economics of Decree 900 (27 June 1952), such as the expropriation, for peasant use and ownership, of unused prime-farmlands that national and multinational corporations had earlier set aside, as reserved business assets * +
jlh1182 4.05.12 - 12:31pm
Theland-reform of Decree 900especially threatened theagricultural monopoly of theUnited Fruit Company, themultinational corporationthat owned 42 percent of thearable land of Guatemala;which landholdings eitherhad been bought by, or beenceded to, the UFC by themilitary dictatorships whopreceded the rbenzGovernment of Guatemala. * +
jlh1182 4.05.12 - 12:32pm
In response to the expropriation of prime- farmland assets, the United Fruit Company asked the U.S. governments of presidents Harry Truman (194553) and Dwight Eisenhower (195361) to act diplomatically, economically, and militarily against Guatemalan President Jacobo rbenz Guzmn * +
nolisto1 4.05.12 - 01:06pm
Is that were the term banana republic originated? * +
dunnddun 4.05.12 - 07:10pm
thankfully its 2012.... *
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