Engineering of Consent: guatemala coup 1954

[@gtantidoto]

Sugar industry in Guatemala is a great case study to be overlooked with regard to the topics discussed in this video. I posted a video response with shots of the industry but would love to get some conv going on the subject. cheers and great video!

[@esgui100]

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

[@BENJY49]

America's foreign policy for all to see.

[@ahmetabbasoglu]

fine docum., thank you

[@smallisbeautiful2808]

Now look at how far into the future this action has reached...There's still nothing there for them, so here they are 65 years later still migrating en masse to the United States for opportunities to make enough remittance money to send back to Guatemala, where their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers build and maintain their family retirement homes .Read the New Yorker article "The Dream Homes of Guatemalan Migrants" for more information on that.Here's the link to it: www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-dream-homes-of-guatemalan-migrants

[@JmsDrkx]

da mucha rabia pensar lo que seria de Guatemala si esto no fuera parte de nuestra historia, te aseguro no tendrianos muchos de los problemas actuales, es una pena yo he regalado este CD con todo el documental y hay muchos que no le dan el valor que merece

[@WernerJR]

:-D it's nice to know that some of you recognize it, most of americans don't even care. Thanks! Have a nice life! and i hope things get better for you guys after bush is over (at least that what we all wish *think so*)

[@doctorcrafts]

You don’t know what most people care about ja

[@RadioFreeWisconsin]

@xabierinfo Read Shattered Hope.

[@JmsDrkx]

trizte pero es cierto!!!

[@Marroquiano]

Por esto Castillo Armas, tristemente terminó como se lo merecía: Asesinado, Los 3 años que estuvo en el poder pasaron sin pena ni gloria, desde ahi, nuestro pueblo se estancó y ahora trata de renacer sobre las cenizas de una grandeza que se estaba cimentando en el pais.

[@davalvert]

Guatemala´s sin: REFUSE TO BE A BANANA LAND NO LONGER!

[@pisadotv]

la cia bonbardio a guatemal!!!! que poca madre piinche tio sam. but i love LA i was boorn in guatemala

[@sergiopach]

No entiendo los comentarios que hacen aqui mis compatriotas. Lo que entiendo es que el comunismo, como el socialismo que es un cancer en la sociedad trato de penetrarse en Guatemala y orgullosamente los mismos Guatemaltecos triumfaron encontra de ese mal. Que bueno, que orgullo que hayan recibido reconocimiento de este nuestro pais adoptivo, EU el lider de el mundo libre.

[@larsturner310]

Scoundrel.

[@MELVINARDON]

Guerra de las bananas

[@RadioFreeWisconsin]

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.

[@gerharddeusser9103]

Nixon was such a bad actor....