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A 6 page research paper that outlines chapters 1-8 in Schlesinger and Kinzer's class text Bitter Fruit, The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (1999). The writer briefly summarizes the high points from these eight chapters, outlining the American corporate involvement in the 1954 coup. No additional sources cited.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
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Begins This account of US involvement in Guatemala begins in 1954 with a description of the liberation activities of revolutionist Charlos Castillo Armas, which called for the overthrow of the
government of President Jacobo Arbenz (8). US authorities were concerned over the situation in Guatemala because that country had recently purchased weapons from Czechoslovakia, which American leaders feared forewarned a
Communist "outpost on this continent" (11). What really concerned American authorities, however, was the fact that the Arbenz government had already embarked on a land reform program that threatened the
vast acreage belonging to an American company, United Fruit (UF) (12). UF controlled roughly 40,000 jobs in Guatemala, had investments totally $60 million, a virtual "state within a state" (12).
The authors hint broadly that the US had something to do with an attack on the Guatemalan capital by two P-47s, aircraft that had never been seen before in "any
Latin Air Force" (14). The chapter ends with the suggestion that the American public had no idea that the US was involved in an "audacious social experiment" in Guatemala and
this was why "powerful US interests" were so threatened by recent political developments that the US felt obliged to intervene. Chapter 2: A Teacher Takes Power This chapter fills
in the reader on pertinent Guatemalan history, describing how the country had been ruled by a serious of political strongmen beginning with independence in 1821 and continuing until a social
upheaval, led by a coalition of professional people, threatened the 14 year dictatorship of General Jorge Ubico in 1944. Ubicos political base was landed aristocracy who expected him to suppress
dissent and political social change (27). Ubico was forced to resign and he turned the leadership of the government over to General Federico Ponce, who seriously misread the mood
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