Engineering of Consent: guatemala coup 1954
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Uploaded by misterpucho on Nov 19, 2006
Extract from "The century of the self" by Adam Curtis. Story behind the coup d'etat which toppled elected president Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. The film explains how Edward Bernays, recruited by United Fruits, created the conditions for a government intervention. Mass media were successfully used for manipulating the public and generating consensus around a military action involving the CIA.
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@xabierinfo Read Shattered Hope.
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@RadioFreeWisconsin For real?.... common.
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@Zeinouto ha ha ha. you are funny. gotta love sarcasm.
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The truth is that Arbenz was a Communist highly influenced by Soviet, Czech, and North Korean propoganda, but not exactly a "Moscow puppet." Arbenz officials made many trips to the Stalinist government of Czechoslovakia.
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Ben Ali in Tunisia seems to be suffering from a CIA-NATO coup?
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the united states robbed the guatemala .......
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american companys in guatemala ....thats bullshit
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La muerte a los comunistas!
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la cia bonbardio a guatemal!!!! que poca madre piinche tio sam.
but i love LA i was boorn in guatemala
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we had almost 40 years of civil war as a consequence of that US intervention, we are still suffering social problems because of that stupid civil war (poverty, lack of infrastructure, a high rate of emigration and so on)....anyway what is done is done, hope this never happen again
esgui100 4 years ago 14
Guatemala´s sin: REFUSE TO BE A BANANA LAND NO LONGER!
davalvert 4 years ago 9