When Did the Us Invade Guatemala
Date18–27 June 1954Locationguatemalawhy Did America Invade Guatemala? as the Cold War Heated up in the 1950S, the United States Made Decisions on Foreign...
Date18–27 June 1954LocationGuatemala
Why did America invade Guatemala?
As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U.S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, on the premise that he was soft on communism.
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On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed widespread torture and genocide.
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