“We
cannot permit a Soviet Republic to be established between Texas and the
Panama Canal.”
US Ambassador to Guatemala, John Peurifoy, quoted in Time Magazine
11 January, 1954
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In 1954, the United States Central Intelligence Agency sponsored a coup of democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. In the years following the coup, between 1954 and 1990, the Guatemalan military, with the support of the United States Government almost entirely throughout, maintained a campaign of repression. Between 1954 and 1990, 200,000 Guatemalans were killed, mostly indigenous Mayans. Why was the United States involved?
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