Manuel Antonio Noriega, CIA operative, Military Dictator.
Well here is a little history lesson my bullheaded fellow.
In 1954, a CIA-orchestrated coup ended what Guatemalans were calling the "Ten Years of Spring," which began with the bloodless overthrow of military dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944. During this period, two democratically-elected civilian presidents governed Guatemala, trying to provide opportunities and raise the standard of living. The United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) protested when unused portions of its vast holdings were taken by the new government and distributed to peasants whom had no land. The Guatemalan government paid the US company the tax-declared value of the land, but United fruit protested to the highest levels of the US government. Two untied fruit stockholders at the time were the Dulles brothers, Secretary of State and head of the CIA in the Eisenhower administration.
Following the coup, Colonel Castillo Armas became the new president. the U. S. Ambassador furnished Armas with lists of radical opponents to be eliminated, and the bloodletting promptly began. Under Armas, thousands were arrested and many were tortured and killed.The coup unleashed one of the most brutal military regimes in the hemisphere. Some 140,000 people have been killed and another 45,000 disappeared in a U.S. backed scorched earth campaign to wipe out dissidents, rebels and activists for peace and social justice in Guatemala. Does this sound like a "We're helping" attidtude to you?
MIRH if you think the US has been nothing but the happy hand of Jesus then you'd best clean the **** out of you eyes and start researching the **** poor acts commited by your government and those like it.
Ha Ha, You are a
COMPLETE ******... here are the facts:
1949 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman killed his rival Gen. Francisco Javier Arana and sought to become the successor of President Juan Jose Arevalo who could not succeed himself in office according to the constitution of Guatemala.
1950 - election of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman as President, began land reform and nationalized the 500,000 acres owned by the United Fruit Company of Boston. John Foster Dulles a UF lawyer would become Secretary of State in
1953, and his brother Allen Dulles would become director of the CIA.
1952 - Truman approved CIA Op. PBFORTUNE effort to overthrow Arbenz.
1953 - Arbenz accepted support of communists in Guatemala, supported labor strikes in Honduras, received 2000 tons Czech arms shipment on the Swedish freighter the Alfhem.
1953 - Eisenhower in August authorized CIA Op. PBSUCCESS to overthrow Arbenz, just two months after he authorized the CIA overthrow of Mossadeg in Iran. At least 68 Guatemalan supporters of Arbenz would be assassinated in 1954 by the CIA.
1954 - In March Guatemala was the only nation voting against the anti-communist resolution introduced by Dulles at the Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas (passed 17-1).
1954 - On June 16 Col. Carlos Enrique Castill Armas invaded from Honduras and in 2 weeks ousted Arbenz who fled to Czech. June 27.
1954 - By the end of the year, Armas was assassinated. A reign of terror by the Guatemalan military began, 9000 supporters of Arbenz were imprisoned, and many others fled the country, including a young Argentine doctor, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who went to Mexico and there met Fidel Castro.
