Specific Keywords: guatemala, united fruit, john foster dulles, allen welsh dulles, jacobo abrenz, carlos castillo, samuel zemurray, eisenhower, 1950..1959
General Keywords: cia, foreign policy, timeline, coup, us intervention, filetype:pdf, filetype:ppt, site:gov
General Keywords: cia, foreign policy, timeline, coup, us intervention, filetype:pdf, filetype:ppt, site:gov
"La United Fruit Co.", Pablo Neruba, poem from Canto General (1950)
http://voiceseducation.org/content/guatemala-city-1944-1954
When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waist of America.It rebaptized these countries Banana Republics, and over the sleeping dead, over the unquiet heroes who won greatness, liberty, and banners, it established an opera buffa:
read the whole poem with English translation
John Foster Dulles
Mar 4, 1954: Dulles asks for action against communism
Speaking before the 10th Inter-American Conference, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warns that "international communism" is making inroads in the Western Hemisphere and asks the nations of Latin America to condemn this danger. Dulles's speech was part of a series of actions designed to put pressure on the leftist government of Guatemala, a nation in which U.S. policymakers feared communism had established a beachhead. (read whole article, image: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b29713)
A Coup: Made in America
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The American press and Guatemala in 1954 - Doctoral paper. Pages 10 to 13 are of particular interest.
United Fruit Company: An Overview (everything2.com)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVinMskK9Zw
United Fruit Company Chronology (united fruit.org)
CIA and assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 documents - National Security Archive - These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA's covert "Operation PBSUCCESS," were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala. (access)
A Killing Field in The Americas - United Fruit Company Under dictator Jorqe Ubico (1931-1944), American-owned United Fruit Company (UFC) gained control of forty-two percent of Guatemala's land, and was exempted from taxes and import duties. The three main enterprises in Guatemala -- United Fruit Company, International Railways of Central America, and Empress Electrica -- were American-owned (and controlled by United Fruit Company). Seventy-seven percent of all exports went to the US and sixty-five percent of imports came from the US... (continue)
Sam The Banana Man (Life Magazine, 1951) - President of the United Fruit Company during the coup