Dangerous History Podcast Uncle Sam vs Democracy part 2 | Prof CJ's

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Encouraged by their success against Iran’s democratic government (covered in last episode), the Dulles Brothers’ next move was against the small central American country of Guatemala, where a left-of-center government appeared to be threatening the interests of the United Fruit Company.

Join Prof CJ as he discusses:

The immediate backstory on Guatemala, including the dominance of American corporations over the country, its democratic revolution in 1944 and the election of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman to the presidency in 1951
The Arbenz government’s Decree 900, aimed at redistributing unused land to poor peasants
The CIA’s Operation PB Success, a largely psychological campaign that succeeded in overthrowing Arbenz in June 1954
How the CIA itself, after ousting Arbenz, failed to find any real evidence that Arbenz was in league with the Soviets
The brutal aftermath of this coup, which caused suffering and oppression in Guatemala for decades and killed over 200,000 people
A brief thought experiment of how Americans might respond if they were put in an analogous situation
Some discussion of the concept known as “blowback”

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