Arbenz & the CIA, Guatemala 1950's

[stephenblackman2003a]

Which documentary is this video clip from?

[ColdWarWarriors]

@stephenblackman2003a CNN's 'Cold War' series.

[EnforcerRyu]

Malditos gringos!!! Guatemala seria un pais muy diferente ahora!! Como dicen otros comentarios se creen dueños del mundo!! Ya no sigan metiendo sus narices donde no los llaman!!

[boris22o]

hoy

Guatemala fuera un gran paiz si tan solo no hubiera dejado ue los e.u. y un puño de traidores se hubieran intrometido en el camino. Today. Guatemala would be a great country if only those f. traitors and the you know who would get in the way.

[hopedream11]

I watch this for entertainment, not to debate.

[elgalan1983]

viva guate,,,,,,les guste o no

[07Sticker]

US evil country! They are bastards how can they be angry for illegal immigration if they historically steal to other countries what kind of blood do they have to be that bad. They should say in the devil we trust!

[mvn591014]

As a result of the US Corporate Fascism, peasants and workers in Central American and in the Caribbean region never got a chance to establish a solid middle-class like in the United States.

Today illegal workers flocking to US border in search of jobs are the consequences of repression of workers' movements. The US government was guilty of giving to a few companies the monopoly to control all the wealth of Central America.

It was the same as ruthless Spanish colonialism and exploitation.

[TheLloydRizla01]

what is this video from, I would like the rest please.

[RadioFreeWisconsin]

Arbenz WAS a Communist! Read "Shattered Hope"

[CULTURALTRAVELS]

GUATEMALA SUCH A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY! FUCKING CIA AND USA EVIL GOVERNMENT! VIVA ARBENZ! VIVA GUATEMALA! VIVA GADHAFI!

[sukamotote69]

Sad part is that when I went to school in Guatemala they don't teach yu shit I didn't know about this shit till I came to the USA

[raquelita40]

@sukamotote69 they don't teach you sh#$ here in the U.S either.

[sukamotote69]

And stupid ppl wonder y we come to their country I bet till this day they fucking our government in the ass and

that's y every1 is broke and have no jobs

[rakkzemmogtube]

The damned gringos think they own the planet earth and are involved in the politics of many countries that sell their democracies in exchange for big bucks for traitors

[Lshag]

The United States is unprecedentedly the most evil regime of the past 75 years. I really don't think, when you look at all of the objective evidence on all levels, that this can be argued. It sickens me. Fidel Castro actually sounds level headed in this video. And in fact, I would argue that what he said is 100% correct, while the actions of the United States are 100% incorrect. Who can argue this?

[EkajTheSwordsman]

@Lshag Arbenz killed hundreds of dissenters. The CIA didn't have the stomach to kill anyone, so it let him go free.

[raquelita40]

@EkajTheSwordsman Arbenz didn't kill anyone! Rios Montt Did!



[EkajTheSwordsman]

It's not exactly controversial that Arbenz killed hundreds. My source is Guatemala's own 1999 truth commission after the restoration of civilian rule and democracy: Antecedentes Inmediatos (1944-1961): El derrocamiento de Arbenz y la intervención militar de 1954,” in Comisión para el Esclaracimiento Histórico (CEH), Guatemala: Memoria Del Silencio (Guatemala, 1999), Capítulo primero.

[stapgnosirve]

MALDITOS GRINGOS!!

[THEGUATEMAYA]

idiot, you're wrong... Arbenz was victim of the CIA, the american government was the one who was killing all the people and not Arbenz.... "Hasta pronto Coronel Arbenz"

[EkajTheSwordsman]

"Arbenz was elected without a secret ballot. His land reform, designed by the Communist Party, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which he then purged. His regime openly praised Stalin, relied on the communists for key decisions, and received arms from the Soviet bloc.[36] He killed hundreds of his opponents.[37] The CIA intervened because it feared that a communist dictatorship would become a Soviet beachhead in the Western Hemisphere.[38]"

[chapincittoo]

@EkajTheSwordsman

You got it wrong, the one who killed hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans indians and guatemalas alike was Castillo Armas, and all the dictators who followed after him with the help of the USA, but thats all history now and all we can do is learn from it.

[stapgnosirve]

@EkajTheSwordsman you don't know anything about our history... please if you will write something so convinced, read some before...

[Rhiabbaco]

@EkajTheSwordsman No, even the US goverment has admited that GUatemalan Intervention was based on a thousand lies to overtrow Arbenz, cause the Land Reform, because it affected UFCO'S privileges. Castillo Armas began wich become lately in the Guatemalan Genocide in the 80's

[EkajTheSwordsman]

@Rhiabbaco The genocide occurred decades later, after a series of military coups, when Guatemala was under a US arms embargo imposed on human rights grounds.

[Rhiabbaco]

@EkajTheSwordsman Yes, but Dwight Eisenhower and Castillo Armas started it all

[bapyou]

"Inasmuch as U.S. interventionism, NATO, the bloated military budget, & a host of other cold war relics have not disappeared at all, it appears that what's been proven fraudulent is the doctrine of the Cold War had been a moral struggle to contain an evil, expansionist Soviet Union, when in fact -- as skeptics like myself have maintained -- it had been about American imperialism all along, with "communist" merely the name given to those who stood in the way." -- William Blum, West Bloc Dissident

[mzindpendent7]

@bapyou now instead of communist the new term is terrorist

[bapyou]

@mzindpendent7 "terrorist"

You got it. In the words of Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, "War is a racket: A few profit and the many pay."

Here's another quote:

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. We should cease to talk about unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. [W]e are going to have to deal in straight power concepts." -George F. Kennan, U.S. State Dept Policy Planning Study 23, February 1948

[mzindpendent7]

@bapyou wow you have done some good research if only other people were capable of seeing truth like these, instead of supporting and being proud of the US... for doing that :/

[bapyou]

@mzindpendent7 I discovered the Kennan quote in the new memoire by anti-war activist S. Brian Willson called Blood on the Tracks (PM Press 2011). When I read the quote I think I bolted upright in my seat: I've been telling people for years that the US has never - not once - stood for democracy in its foreign policy. And there it was in black and white.

Search Volume 1 of 'Foreign Relations of the United States' on the George Washington University website to read the quote in context.

[tonylee1973]

Joseph Stalin was sending aid to those who wanted to nationalize the land. What were we do?

[pushups2345]

I dont know why the propaganda line about this being the whole thing being about U.Fruit still persists-the takeover was in 1951. 3 years later, after a few communist assassins based in Guatemala were caught in Honduras and in a ship full of soviet bloc weapons were interdicted on it's way to Guatemala, then CIA and Honduras did something to help the resistance - then Arbenz (and the Soviets) began claiming is was the UF takeover 3 years earlier

the civil war was started years after armas, btw

[fathead8489]

@pushups2345

Get your facts strait the Agrarian Reform Law passed on June 17, 1952, but wasn't ordered until February 26, 1953. The final expropriation of 172,532 acres wasn't completed until February 24, 1954.

The United States issued a formal claim against Guatemala ON BEHALF OF UFCO on April 20, 1954. The arms were found a month later on May 15. Plans for military action against Guatemala began on October 3, 1952!!!!

Source : FRUS, 1952-1954. Volume IV:the American republics (pp1041)

[monicamacz]

marcostar57 I thought the same thing when I heard that, how dared him to say that when all the US do is invade hahahah!

[raiserhell]

that is the way, the game is played.

In western countries the CIA**

is controling the mass-media and (therefore) the politicians as well.

If u need to be elected by the public - the CIA knows, how to bring u to fail. whether they know something, that will brake you the neck,

or they simply construct a story, that will. ..

**and the other organisations of that kind -like the NSA for collecting and crawling the worldwide information and so on...

[vjdacosta]

US has a long history in meddling in other Govermants. It backed several dictatorships . . In Guatamela the united fruit company practically owned the country. . . While top executives of the company in the US lived in million dollar homes the very people who did all the work could barely make ends meet in Guatamela. Unions were bannned. leaders were on US pay roll. In Pakisthan too the US supported a dictatorship of Zia ul haq rather than support a true democracy.

[AACForums]

The US is responsible for many of the problems in the world today, they have a lot to answer for.

[GENOCIDEBYISRAEL]

Bloody zionists responsible for over 200,000 deaths in rural Guatemala. There are files on U.S war crimes against the Guatemalan people, can be found on the internet in depth detail. (financially assisted by the U.S with Israeli made weapons) The United Fruit Comp. known as "DELMONTE" products, is 1 of the reasons why the U.S slaughter so many people in rural Guatemala.

[happiness6589746]

greed is good 999999999

[AdamVikingen]

may fidel never die, he is ouer last hope of revolution!

[weircali]

Howard Hunt should burn in hell.  He makes me ill.

[marcostar57]

Ambassdor Lodge had the audacity to order the Soviets to "stay out our hemipshere" while WE were busy intervening in Iraq in '53 (next door to the Soviets) in addition to Guatemala.

Heaven forbid any president calls for land reform, or national control over their OWN resources....God, we have a DIRTY CIA history.

[onethirdbat]

its Arbenz