How CIA overthrew Guatemala's elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)
Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organiz…
Geopolitical Economy Report · Ben Norton
January 22, 202350m 7s
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Show Notes
Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organized a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected left-wing President Jacobo Árbenz to stop land reform and help the United Fruit Company (Chiquita today). He also discusses the Dwight Eisenhower administration's policies in Southeast Asia and the Vietnamese national-liberation struggle against French colonialism.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTfMOH-j4Oc
This is PART 15 of the Empire and the Deep State series we are co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.
PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL