jueves, 21 de mayo de 2009

Arbenz, Armas, and the CIA - Guatemala

Arbenz was elected President of Guatemala in 1950 to continue a process of socio- economic reforms that the CIA
The first CIA effort to overthrow the Guatemalan president--a CIA collaboration with Nicaraguan dictator Anastacio Somoza to support a disgruntled general named Carlos Castillo Armas and codenamed Operation PBFORTUNE--was authorized by President Truman in 1952.
In 1954 Carlos Castillo Armas make a assesination list for CIA, the list was divided into 2, ones that will die and ones that will be prisoned during the operation.















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