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Cold War: Guatemala
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Cold War: Guatemala
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Jesus Torres
The Americans. Two Textbook Accounts. USA, 2002Stanford History Education Group
Results of U.S. Actions
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman left office after his country was invaded by CIA-trained forces. Therefore, the leader of the army, Carlos Castillo Armas, took over as a dictator.
What did America do?
The CIA responded by arming the Guatemalan opposition and training them at secret camps in Nicaragua and Honduras.
U.S. Opposes leader
United States opposed Jacobo Arbenz Guzman because his land reform program took over large estates. Including those of the American-owned United Fruit Company.
The leader of Guatemala in 1954
The leader of Guatemala was Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. But after Carlos Castillo Armas raided Guatemala, he became the dictator of the country.
How and why did the U.S. fight the cold war in Guatemala?
Eisenhower believed that Guatemala’s government, headed by Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, had Communist sympathies because it had given more than 200,000 acres of American-owned land to peasants.
In response, the CIA trained an army, which invaded Guatemala and captured Arbenz Guzman and his forces.