Shattered Hope
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1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat
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Adviser
Agrarian reform
Allen Dulles
Americans
Anti-Americanism
Anti-communism
Assistant Secretary
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Ballot
Banana republic
Caracas
Caribbean Legion
Carlos Castillo Armas
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Caudillo
Central America
Central Committee
Communism
Communist propaganda
Costa Rica
Coup d'etat
Covert operation
Culture of fear
Decree
Decree 900
Defection
Demoralization (warfare)
Dictatorship
Dominican Republic
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Extremism
Fellow traveller
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Guatemalan Revolution
Guatemalans
Harry S. Truman
Honduras
Hostility
Imperialism
Jacobo
Jacobo Arbenz
Labour movement
Latin America
Legislation
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Newspaper
Nicaragua
Opportunism
Organization of American States
Peasant
Persecution
Political party
Politician
Politics
Pretext
Puerto Barrios
Quetzaltenango
Radicalization
Resignation
Soviet Union
Tax
The New York Times
Trade union
Undersecretary
United Fruit Company
United States
United States Department of State
Upper class
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691025568
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention can be blamed on no single "convenient villain." "Extensively researched and written with conviction and passion, this study analyzes the history and downfall of what seems in retrospect to have been Guatemala's best government, the short-lived regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954, by a CIA-orchestrated coup."--Foreign Affairs "Piero Gleijeses offers a historical road map that may serve as a guide for future generations...[Readers] will come away with an understanding of the foundation of a great historical tragedy."--Saul Landau, The Progressive "[Gleijeses's] academic rigor does not prevent him from creating an accessible, lucid, almost journalistic account of an episode whose tragic consequences still reverberate."--Paul Kantz, Commonweal
