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author/source
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, president of Guatemala, 1951 (overthrown in 1954 in U.S./CIA organized coup)Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
a book review by Annie Zirin
International Socialist Review, November-December 2006
http://www.isreview.org/
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Guatemala
foreign policy
quotation
"Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which affected the interests of the United Fruit Company.… Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win an economic independence that would match our political independence."