How CIA Created a Banana Republic - Guatemala 1954 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the 1954 coup in Guatemala, as we see how the American CIA turned it into a banana republic
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[@brokenbridge6316]

What the CIA did in Guatemala was criminal. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@resentfuldragon]

the cia and crimes go hand in hand. Unlike the fbi, the cia has no real limits on what they are allowed to do. the cia has been involved with many dirty deeds, and they should be policed better to stop dumb actions like what they did in guatemala and many other countries.

[@davebrayfb]

It was one of America's worst crimes of the 20th century along with the invasion of Vietnam & other coups & terrorist acts in Africa, the Middle East, South-East Asia & Latin America. The Guatemala coup ended up with the Mayan genocide by far-right groups the Americans were funding & training.

[@dogetaxes8893]

Don’t mind the CIA they get a little bit silly sometimes. They’re such goof balls always forgetting about issues such as human rights.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

@davebrayfb How did the USA invade Vietnam you ingeramus

[@jameswilliams2481]

Really? Have you no compassion for America's beloved united fruit company? Think of the stock holders!

[@julianaguirre7249]

Take this as some history "easter egg": a young Argentinian student was present in Guatemala during Arbenz's goverment last months; there he knew some Cuban exiles, besides others Centroamerican left activists. He saw the coup unfolding and even took part in the brief resistance against it. His name: Ernesto Guevara, later better known as "Che" Guevara.

[@kevinculp70]

The crazy thing is that the Cuban revolution was just as bad for its people as it would have been if the CIA coup planed but vetoed by Kennedy, had happened. In the end big fish always eat little fish. We like to pretend we are civilized but it's more of a luxury for the bigger countries to keep them placated and oblivious.

[@matiasd5216]

Hola Julián. ¿Escuchaste cómo el conductor pronunció el apellido "Aguirre" en este video?? Todavía está desenredándose la lengua. No recordaba esa anécdota del Che Guevara. Saludos desde Laboulaye, Córdoba.

[@stephanschoenbeck4905]

My Grandpa was the treasurer from his home of Quezaltepeque located near the border with Honduras back in 1954. When Armas came in he was arrested and tortured his brother and father in law where executed by Armas troops. Years later during the civil war one of his nephews (my uncle) was a student activist, and when he was protesting the disappearance of some of his class mates the military police took him and till the day haven’t heard from him. What angers me is that my family had never gotten justice, and that’s the story of several Guatemalans that have a brother, sister, parent, son, daughter or friend killed or missing because of this conflict.

[@TheEnergizer94]

Very sorry. I've been to Guatemala before learning about what happened there and am I now even more impressed at how lovely and friendly Guatemalans were. A people who keeps its humanity despite its suffering is a great people

[@diegoferreiro9478]

I read Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'Tiempos Recios' (Rough Times) which is set up around Árbenz struggle and it is highly commendable. The saddest thing of all is that Árbenz was not a communist but his goal was that Guatemalans could be like Americans in terms of welfare and democracy.

[@MarvinGuatemalanBoy]

I also have that book. Arbenz's goal was to make Guatemala a modern capitalist democratic republic and to turn Guatemala into a very rich country where all its inhabitants had the best quality of life. And it's not that the CIA didn't know that, but since Arbenz's project collided with the US's own economic interests, they invented the excuse of communism to get rid of him

[@cjclark2002]

They couldn’t be without exploiting everyone else around them, this is what frustrates me to this day, we would not have the standard of living (which isn’t great could be better considering we pillage and plunder almost everyone but the war criminals and oligarchs that head our nation absorb that wealth and implement trickle down policies which is just lies and more manipulation on top of everything else) that we have in our modern day, I’m ashamed of this country and quite pissed off being abused used lied to and manipulated daily and it has to end.

[@NooneStaar]

@@MarvinGuatemalanBoy And ended up causing for communist partisans to form in the country.

[@Willys-Wagon]

It's like terrorism, a convenient label to justify acts of terror l.

[@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917]

As an American, PBSUCCESS is probably one of the more personally embarrassing events to me, and is one of the larger reasons (but not the largest) that I despise the CIA. To say it set-back Guatemala decades is an understatement.

[@Ilaunchnukes]

The Soviet Union should've been more aggressive then.

[@jP-yu9ie]

This and their syphilis experiments way after Tuskegee

[@matiasd5216]

Hi there. Unfortunately, those interventions in Latin América were like seeds of poisonous trees that, decades later, still grow.

[@TheDexCrafter]

And all for fucking Chiquita.

[@edivimo]

Nice, I'm from Central America and it will be nice to watch the future episodes about the proxy wars here, because it was(is) really messy. I hope that you can do also an episode about the peace process that ended that wars too, because that was also messy.

[@porkchopproductions0314]

I'm from the US and there's not a lot of information readily available about them; a crying shame. It's essential history to learn about and learn from

[@redjournals2817]

Title should be "How USA created a Banana Republic" not "CIA". Isn't CIA a government agency of US then and even now? Western propaganda blames other countries but when it comes it's own faltering, they shift responsibility like this, "our rogue agency did it, CIA did it, government didn't know". From titles to commission and omission of facts, a narrative is created everywhere to give a image of goodness and righteousness while truth is polar opposite.

[@porkchopproductions0314]

@@redjournals2817 The CIA has been a thing since the early 1950s with its predecessor the OSS being created closely after Pearl Harbor. Most of the infornation has been declassified in Senate commissions in the 1970s as well as piece by piece since then

[@edivimo]

@@porkchopproductions0314 Well no, because the US is the villain in this case. Every awful action that the US that was presented on this video get worse later on the wars in Central America.

[@porkchopproductions0314]

@@edivimo The video blames the US, because the group that made the most damage was the CIA. They had support from US presidents and members of Congress from the1940s to the end of the Cold War

[@maxiona714]

United fruit company: "Yeah, that's really cheap land, we totally didn't make this up for tax evasion or anything." Guatemalan government: "Ok. We will give our people some human dignity at work and have to get some land for the poorest, so we will buy it off from you for a cheap price." United fruit company: "HOW DARE YOU!!!"

[@MarvinGuatemalanBoy]

I can't believe that Arbenz never broke off diplomatic relations with the US. Being too diplomatic and legalistic played him wrong. Perhaps Arbenz should have been more belligerent

[@nathanweitzman9531]

@@MarvinGuatemalanBoy what options did he really have?

[@OFFICIALDJFLASHBACK]

@@nathanweitzman9531 I was just about to say this. I think a complete break in diplomatic relations with the United States would've been the immediate justification for the coup. It only would've accelerated the chain of events that transpired.

[@randymi9334]

His only option would be to go to the soviets for aid but that didn't even work out for Cuba which had much more going for it.

[@nathanweitzman9531]

@@randymi9334 oof. Yeah, my thinking was the poor guy was going to eventually flee to somewhere like Switzerland and hit up embassy workers in bars or something until he could get an audience and eventually international sympathy for his countrys story. Which really isn't the worst sort of way to manage such a horrendous thing, imo. I have a hunch Cuba's continued existence as an communist country has more to do with being an island than anything else.

[@randomnerd2332]

I just took an amazing college course on the cold war in Latin America during the 60s which finished last week. Please do more videos on the cold war's effect on Latin America as it has a significant scar on the countries involved Topics to discuss: Brazil '64 coup Salvador Allende vs the CIA Operation CONDOR Mexico during the 50s & 60s (my professor wrote a very fascinating book on this topic which I would recommend) Dominican Republic post Trujillo Argentina during & post Peron The Cuban Revolution's effect on the left in Latin America American diplomat Thomas Mann & his influence on US policy in Latin America Sandinistas in Nicaragua A breakdown on JFK's Alliance for Progress & So much more

[@michaeldelisieux]

The more it changes, the more it continues to be the same!

[@Eduardo_Ventura]

Please, stop lying about my country. 64 was a liberation from communist forces backed and financed by Cuba. The Brazilian people went to the streets to beg the military to act on what was a certain coup (or revolution as you call it). We didn't have a dictatorship. People here live peaceful lives, had their freedom guaranteed, could come and leave the country, own guns (do you see it on a dictatorship?). And we were at war. Guerrillas on our country and support for other countries outside. Thanks to our military this part of the continent didn't tasted the prison life the Cuban people did. Interesting how you choose to call some as "coup" and other with this fancy name "revolution" which was take the country by force, suppress civil rights and create the communist regime.

[@ericgabrielbautistajaimes9187]

What is the book that your teacher wrote?

[@Canhistoryismylife]

do you have the name of the book about mexico during the 50s and 60s

[@beorntwit711]

@@Eduardo_Ventura 64 was literally PBSuccess for Brazil. It prevented any land reform, any inequality reduction. It made Brazil the 'shit hole nation' (high crime, high inequality, massive corruption) that you have today (and that it was since Dom Pedro II decided to run). Sorry to be blunt.

[@jakobheidenreich5]

Please make a video on the 1963 CIA coup against Ngo Dinh Diem. Great work as always!

[@gv8773]

Please make a video on El Salvador. The violence caused by that civil war led to my mother fleeing and starting a new life here. I can never find a good video on that particular subject and I find it particularly interesting because it affected my family directly. Two of my uncles even fighting for the US backed Ejército. I always love the informative videos you guys make so keep them coming.

[@resentfuldragon]

these kinds of stories makes me mad at the anti-immigration crowd. many of the immigrants coming to the western nations left due to something the usa or its friends caused. if the people against immigration don't want people to enter their countries, then they shouldn't ruin other people's homes.

[@Kyle-fq4kq]

@@resentfuldragon most people in the US have no clue about the coups because they aren’t taught in school

[@RikSandstromCalifornia]

@@resentfuldragon What makes you think that "anti-immigration crowd" (which for the most part is more likely anti-illegal immigration) approve of these kinds of actions? I certainly don't. In fact I have often wondered why our government continues to make so many political gaffes south of our border. As a side note, the groundwork for this could be said to have started with Spanish Colonialism.

[@teddyj.3198]

@@RikSandstromCaliforniaThat doesn’t matter. The fact that those that oppose immigration, even though there are numerous examples of US imposed political persecution, do so even if they acknowledge it, doesn’t make them any better than those who support American imperialism. Anti immigration is most often the stance of the ignorant anyway

[@DanTheYoutubeAddict]

This is one of the prime examples of how the U.S. was not inherently the "good guys" in the Cold War, and how the conflict was not Democracy vs. Communism but Communism vs. Anti-Communism.

[@lainiwakura1776]

No, more like USA vs. anti-USA. Most of the democratically leaders in Latin America were anti-USA and were all overthrown by US backed coups.

[@relaxedsack1263]

While of course ideology is a huge factor in the cold war. I think the fact you had 2 global super powers was the real problem. They could both be democratic, communist, fascist, neo-monarchist, whatever. And you would still have a coldwar.

[@riddhimaansenapati5006]

@@relaxedsack1263 Not really. Ideology is what makes the superpowers have global influence. Putin's Russia can't offer anything to Latin Americans, Asians etc whereas the Soviet Union's ideology was responsible for it's global influence that's why the latter was a superpower. Idealogy prevents cooperation if Britain and USA were superpowers then there would be competition but they won't see each other as existential threats leading to a cold war. As in two different idealogies was the problem.

[@riddhimaansenapati5006]

Sometimes even not that as the US started allying with communist China in the 70s before their economic transformation. Also that's an outdated view as there were several countries in both bloc's that pursued independent foreign policy which were not exactly for spreading communism or capitalism.

[@DanTheYoutubeAddict]

@@riddhimaansenapati5006 fair enough. I was making a broad statement which is not really the best of things to do. I mainly wanted to debunk the myth that the U.S. was/is a paragon of virtue, righteousness, and democracy.

[@readingforwisdom7037]

Superb! Appreciate the perspectives from this channel. Very balanced

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

[@analizbar]

i recommend similiar topic, indonesian during soeharto regime,, 32 years US-backed military dictatorship and long repression of leftist politic (ex: indonesian mass killings 1965-66, supported by us, british, and other "free" world)

[@ggtt2547]

Yeah, those were trully the american middle ages, weren't they. Just total lunacy. And it's so terrifyingly close in the past too.

[@thorthewolf8801]

Better dead than red!

[@blanchjoe1481]

"...When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled...". Entities such as United Fruit represented resources and value that outstripped a significant number of emerging nations states. Eventually United Fruit Company and Morrell ( the meat packing conglomerate known as AMK ) merged together and formed Chiquita Brands International, Inc ( yes Chiquita Bananas ). In 2007 Chiquita pleaded guilty to charges of making illegal protection payments to a right-wing militia in Colombia, for which it was fined $25 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

John Foster Dulles: helps instigate two coups in Iran and Guatemala Iran and Guatemala: Bruh are we a joke to you- The US, naming the capital's airport after him: *Yes* Meanwhile during the Football War, the United Fruit Company supported Honduras because they wanted all the bananas for themselves rather than to the Salvadoran immigrants who were working and lived there for generations

[@resentfuldragon]

these companies still are around, untied fruit company is now called Chiquita and is the one we all buy bananas from to this day. it never stopped.

[@armandotalampas4800]

Guatemala suffered a more tragic fate than Iran! The former was embroiled in a civil war that lasted almost four decades (1960-96) and claimed the lives of 200,000 people! Colombia is the only Latin American country that followed a bloodier path post-WW2

[@captain4595]

Ironical was the fact that Jacobo Arbenz wasn't a communist,rather a capitalist.His only problem was against the crony capitalism of United Fruits company.And USA itself had done land redistribution efforts in Japan.But in case of Guatemala,they had a problem since Eishenhower was in cahoots with UFC

[@helloworld0609]

How many elected governments were overthrown by the CIA? This channel covered a few: Iran, Guatemala, Chile.

[@ebbeb9827]

probably most of latin America have experienced such a coup

[@mikeyorkav4039]

Australia, ukraine, iraq...

[@blacksatanist]

Iran

[@blacksatanist]

DRC

[@blacksatanist]

Ghana

[@ignacio9702]

love these videos

[@Numba003]

I would like to learn more about Latin America during the Cold War. It's a fascinating topic I don't know a ton about. Thank you for this video! Merry Christmas out there everybody! ✝️🎄

[@ligayamatira2293]

We Wish to have a feature episode about the Philippines before Ferdinand Marcos

[@reybladen3068]

Too risky. Trolls and fanatics from both dynasties might attack in the comment section and make it toxic.

[@MrKIMBO345]

They did. However, they discussed about the situation after World War 2. ( 1946- 1950s)

[@victorperfecto6267]

Marcos the fascist

[@chrisl8355]

I'd like for you to cover the burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City.

[@isaaccastro4846]

One of the darkest stories of the country, only one survivor who was kidnapped from the hospital and then of course, tortured for being a “commie”

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Rebels: There's many of us, and we are backed by the US, we are inevitable! Guatemalan military and government: Fine- Guatemala realizing just how many there actually were: *Reality is often disappointing*

[@MarvinGuatemalanBoy]

The Guatemalan Arbenz government laughed at the Castillo Armas Liberation Army, as they said it was a group of 300 poorly educated and poorly trained mercenaries, incapable of taking power. What really scared Arbenz was the psychological warfare that made him think that if they attacked Castillo Armas, it would justify a direct attack by the US Army in Guatemala. And indeed, when Arbenz resigned, that group of 300 ignorant mercenaries took power and became owners of everything. The US gave them all that power.

[@elite_mythical3837]

I pray for better days for Guatemala

[@christianrodier3381]

Interesting!

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Banana Republics , a fine American tradition 😏

[@hugoberlusconi]

Yes a way to discriminate beautiful, rich countries.

[@hugoberlusconi]

Is so beautiful and rich the Kingdom of Guatemala established since 1609 and that extends from El Soconusco (today Chiapas) to part of Panama. Guatemala is 12th producer of silver in the world and 20th producer of gold besides having massive reserves of nickel, jade and so many other natural resources too bad for almost a century big foreign multinational anglosaxon corporations have been taking almost everything. Long live Juan Santamaria the heroe of Costa Rica who died in battle against the anglo pirates. The Malvinas belong to Argentina 🇦🇷, The Esequibo belongs to Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Belice belongs to Guatemala 🇬🇹. Guatemala exploited and sabotaged for almost a century but never gives up!!. The Malvinas belong to Argentina 🇦🇷, The Esequibo belongs to Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Belice belongs to Guatemala 🇬🇹. God bless you all 🙏

[@Quantum-1157]

Retired White CIA guy in 2022: ‘ah, I miss the good old days where we could run countries and have exciting brazen missions in smaller foreign countries without giving a $hit about how it may impact millions of people there!”

[@cjclark2002]

“Good Times, Good Times, welp! Time to plunder the cong.. I mean be deployed to Africa cya later!” 👋🏻

[@bmyers7078]

4:45 Tax-Evasion purposes ? Say it isn’t so, David ! 😆

[@micahknapp7109]

13:35 Mosin Nagant Rifles!!! Of course they were there... ubiquitous things! :)

[@BTScriviner]

I always look forward to your videos, but it makes sad that my country has so interfered with so many other countries' internalaffairs, including overthrowing their governments.

[@lonelychameleon3595]

Guatemala paying UFC the underpriced amount they paid for the land might be one of the best trolls of all time

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Good thing the Monroe Doctrine is a thing so there is no European interference in the western hemisphere. Wouldn't want there to be any instability in Central and South America. 😉

[@deshaun9473]

They don't need U.S. dominance either.

[@cjclark2002]

Thank the gods for that piece morally upheld legislation right? It’s our manifest destiny after all, to plund.. I mean protect sovereignty and the rights of man. Our men, our resources.. comrade.

[@resentfuldragon]

@@deshaun9473 thats the joke, the usa was acting like it wanted foreign influence out of south america, but they really wanted to keep those nations for themselves. imagine a world where western nations didn't keep destabilizing nations from the cold war to this day. south america, the middle east, and africa would be in infinitely better situations.

[@blacksatanist]

​@@resentfuldragonexactly

[@victorperfecto7472]

America is bastardizing someone’s house. America should clean their sh$tty backyard

[@user-cx1ki8li4t]

I'm very glad to know the history of America, or because of the translator's mistakes, it's very difficult for me to understand 《Cien años de soledad》.

[@edivimo]

To be fair, I speak Spanish and also for me is really hard to understand "Cien años de soledad". Is a difficult book. I usually tell the joke that you can understand that book on your 3rd reading.

[@ThisNinjaSays_]

In the middle east US companies gave Saudi Arabia fair oil exploration contracts with fair profit sharing (50/50). When Iran wanted similar fair oil agreements from Britain, America helped Britain to get rid of Iranian PM Mossadeh.

[@tonnybaldeonvaldez2699]

Funny thing, democracy and liberty world leader supporting dictatorships.

[@teethgrinder83]

That's because it's really the dollar which controls what happens

[@kasimsultonfan]

That's an original line of thought 🤔

[@Nastik261]

"Democracy and liberty".... Lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@eee9034]

People are people, and Because democracy is a system where you can chose and remove the dictator of your wish. (I am not saying tyrant) Edit:- for a period of time

[@weirdshibainu]

True, and not condoning the excesses of the time, but the Cold War was an existential threat that overshadowed the West. China and Russia were serious threats, well armed and led by ideologues that had no issue expanding at the West's expense or sacrifice large numbers of troops to do so. Unfortunately, global politics is sometimes a case of picking the (barely) lesser of 2 evils

[@spointz8936]

It seems like the Guatemalan coup and the Iranian coup were the worst, most egregious foreign policy crimes of the US, esp in terms of how benign and democratic the displaced governments were.

[@accent1666]

17:41 oof, that hurts more in the 21th century

[@goodman4966]

Hello cold war team I just want to say I'm really enjoying the content for the last couple of years I also wanted to ask when you guys get to talk about Vietnam war or the second Indochina war can you also talk about Thailand, Philippines, South Korea and Australia and New Zealand's involvement in the war and how is the war seen today in those countries? Anyone in the chat can link some books that talk about their involvement and how is it affect the nation to this day or how is veterans of the war are seen at the time and today

[@chrisdiaz9011]

Today: Why is Latin America shifting towards China?????

[@cjclark2002]

Do they have a choice? Do you like living like an 11th century serf peasant with a rifle barrel to the back of you’re head and the imminent threat of the heavens raining down devastation and napalm upon you and you’re family and homes. Think about it, it’s quite twisted.

[@pyeitme508]

wow

[@Zaeyrus]

Tuna steak on bbq, cabernet sauvignon and as I sit down, new The Cold War video pops up! Good Saturday

[@williamcastillo2312]

Can you do a video about El Salvador 🇸🇻. The war that the US funded is what brought my father to the US. No good videos exist on this war.

[@tremorsfan]

The CIA fits the definition of Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[@frankieseward8667]

36 year civil war. That should tell you all you need to know.

[@cjclark2002]

This is false, because they have been highly successful the majority of the time as you can see by looking outside and on the news. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it amirite? This country has no shame and no honor.

[@arinthel]

@@cjclark2002 It’s been failing rather frequently as of late. Myanmar and Kazakhstan both failed.

[@Marinealver]

The First "cyberpunkish" Megacorp, was the UFC.

[@Jay-ho9io]

*British East India has entered the chat*

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

*Confused Dana White Noises*

[@EbonySaints]

*"Laughs in clogs and cloves"*

[@davidmurciaaristizabal5381]

Viva Arbenz

[@Retarmy1]

There more before, this the Banana wars, the United fruit Co. 1898.

[@-JA-]

😊👍

[@masterimbecile]

I find this story rather a-peal-ling

[@benjaminphelps561]

Orange you glad it was a banana republic?

[@extrahistory8956]

Reference to the TGW channel?

[@TheColdWarTV]

To quote my favourite lobster monster, Dr Zoidberg, "Your joke is bad and you should feel bad"

[@jorgerobles628]

I was born in Guatemala in 1956 to a family whose loyalty belonged to Jorge Ubico, and was very resentful against the following governments of Arevalo and Arbenz. I remember the stories they had told me how they had to escape Guatemala coz they were supposedly threaten with jail and even death by the Arevalo and Arbenz Governments. But what I was never told was that they were also backing up the UFC, and had big deals with that company. Four years later after I was born, in 1960, the civil war started in Guatemala, and many of the members of my extended family took part in that genocidal war against the poor peasants in the Guatemalan countryside, and one of them became a War Criminal that was pardoned by the Armistice of 1996. When I went back to Guatemala in 2019, we had a Birthday Celebration where we met. I had heard that one of his sons' a cousin of mine, had been killed just 8-9 years before, and that he did not do anything to request justice for the death of his son. I asked him why was that, already knowing the war criminal guy he was. He avoided the question, but I told him in front of all the people present that he did nothing coz he knew the killing of his son was as revenge from people who had lost their families during those war years. He did not say anything, the one who said something was his older son who said that Guatemala was going to be even better now with the help of Trump, to which he praised as the greatest American president since Eisenhower. I told him he was nuts, and that the Russian Operative Trump was going to end his corrupt presidency in 2020. We really had a very strong argument. But since then, I totally despised that part of my family coz they were part of the people who help Armas and his cronies to become puppets of the American Government, even now as of 2023. Eisenhower is the start-up of what we have now here in America with the republican party, a party of lawless and traitors. And the motherless Trump still say as his defense that America is now a Banana Republic, but if America is now a Banana Republic, is due to the previous republican presidents that slowly but steadily had corroded the Fabric of Democracy all around the world. What the CIA and Eisenhower did during those years in Guatemala, in Iran, in Chile, in Vietnam, and many other places, are still showing the nefarious effects of the American Policies in Latin America and the world. This is awful. I Greatly appreciate this video. My Professional Education was done in a very liberal place, Puerto Rico where I was introduced to many books Like the "El Papa Verde" and the "Venas Abiertas de Latinoamerica" that narrated the disgraceful American activities in Latin America. I myself do not purchase bananas from Chiquita Banana, I have my own banana plants in my backyard. Purchasing those bananas are like insulting the victims of that criminal civil war, my own brothers and sisters..........

[@nebur59]

So I suppose you’d rather have biden then? Manipulated and naive.

[@kylegoodreau2170]

Is this the only footage the world has of arbenz ....cutting a ribbon lol

[@chrisdaSpic]

VIVA GUATE 🇬🇹

[@diegojose4173]

A perfect storm, a huge multinational corporation with deep ties to the U.S government, and a relatively small country with weak institutions, high levels of poverty, ultra-conservative elements in the army and high-class, and in close proximity to the U.S. Arbenz could taken the initiative but he didn't knew how the deep the ties between the UFC, and believed that the UFC was just a huge American company that he could negotiate with without the involving the U.S. Plus, he should had NEVER bought weapons from the Eastern Bloc.

[@greenkoopa]

True story: 16 years ago when I was 19 I learned Spanish so I could date a Guatemalan woman. It was a win-win-win 😏 I think the thing I like the most is when people try to insult me in Spanish while smiling at me. Cuántas personas saben que cotilleas? Get rekt 🐢🐢🐢 Te estraño Flori 💚

[@douglasschaden3475]

What kind of person are you that people want to insult you all the time?

[@tylerok2520]

@@douglasschaden3475 you don’t know? Ppl most likely to get insulted or accosted for doing nothing is white people now a days

[@greenkoopa]

@@douglasschaden3475 🤔 an American. I never said people always insult me though, read my comment again

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Man is down bad

[@greenkoopa]

@@ShubhamMishrabro nah man I've had kids and stuff since then, I just remember her cause she taught me a new language

[@EbonySaints]

I'm not gonna lie or try and pretend to be intelligent here like I knew anything about this other than that other video. I just mentally replaced everyone involved with crudely drawn stick figures and expected footage of Eisenhower flying in personally and gunning down Jacobo with an AK. Still a great video though.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Being an 80's kid, that's how I thought.

[@aasemahsan]

1:44 1944 Guatemalan Revolution

[@johnacott1238]

US foreign policy: a force for good and peace in the world! .........and then I woke up! It is a real shock, having to deal with the dismay and sadness, when reality bites you on the ass! Just how much suffering has this caused the world?

[@greenkoopa]

Yeah man. In too many ways the US has been just like the USSR. Not the same, just very similar foreign policy

[@TheBucketSkill]

USA reaps what it sowed with all the immigrants coming from Guatemala and surrrounding states

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@greenkoopa The US was and is worse than the USSR.

[@kwd3109]

I don't know but why don't you ask the victims of Mao's great leap forward or the soviet gulags? Oh, that's right, you can't.....they've already been murdered by the communists.

[@HERES_JAWNiE]

@@kwd3109 The great leap forward was china's attempt to industrialize. Amerika, in comparison, had slavery. Amerika currently has 25% of the world's prison population. Amerika literally has no moral high ground in this world

[@Seouldrift7]

Paraguay 1947 ?

[@brentsummers7377]

Amazing how nearly 70 years later, and countless failures, some people still have faith in the UN Security Council & think it performs a useful function!

[@grupohebrontv4262]

I'm guatemalan, first time I heard Arbenz use to belong a Lot of land. I think that information is wrong.

[@ManiaMusicChannel]

And who was said to be the "Evil Empire"? In my opinion, it was always the USA since even before the cold war

[@AndrewBurbo-zw6pf]

the DOJ is creating one here.

[@Jozumbre]

Gotta love the US intervention....

[@carlmarburger7513]

Lose the background music.

[@KailamiMwiinga]

An example of crimes against humanity

[@youtubeaccount24569]

ah ... yes, the benevolent hegemon

[@ThisNinjaSays_]

America supported land reforms and land expropriation in post WW2 South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The US supported Egypt when they nationalized (with compensation) the Suez Canal. And the same US government killed Arbenz for the same land policies 😡.

[@sumitchaturvedi7425]

Another example of how bad American foreign policy has been for a century, and the amount of damage it has done, all over the world.

[@hugoberlusconi]

100% true. Big multinational multi-billonaire anglosaxon corporations exploiting for almost a century big part of Latinoamerica and the world. God bless you all🙏

[@donthasselthehoff5753]

@@hugoberlusconi Anglo-Saxons haven't existed since the middle ages.

[@lisakeitel3957]

That's why people in latinamerica in general doesn't believe US or NATO propaganda. Their goverments neither, but usually obey the empire.

[@ColdHighway7]

Keep an eye on AMLO (current Mexican president) who refused to sanction Russia and Bukele (El Salvador) who attempting to taking on the banksters

[@YoBoyUser]

Make a podcast son

[@saldownik]

Thank you US

[@stefanodadamo6809]

A loathsome affaire. Arbenz was at best a populist Social Democrat. Events like this unmask anti-Communism for what actually was in most cases: ideological hate for any possible left of the past, present and future, and the vehicle of particular interests.

[@elchavoovando]

RIP El Chavo Julio Aka El Gato.. He’s a victim to this tragedy.. smh all for Bananas.. killed i innocent civilians for A fruit.. generation’s have be fucked since then.. 🚘👨🏽‍🌾🚨

[@Jason-fm4my]

Nice that you can speak frankly, so as to learn from the government's past mistakes.

[@g4m3r222]

I dont like bananas.

[@patsmith3894]

What the CIA did in Guatamala it is now doing to the USA itself. The chickens come home to roost.

[@Elonmuskasseater69]

I hope they didn’t create all that’ll be bad hehe

[@prettypurple7175]

DA BANADA MAN AND THE CIA/////

[@the1ghost764]

Sad History.

[@youtubehandlesux]

Come on murica, where's your CIA now when Philippine desperately needs it?

[@sutherlandA1]

If they don't have a financial interest in the nation they don't care

[@victorperfecto6267]

@@sutherlandA1 the Philippines is of great value to your bosses…

[@hugoberlusconi]

Guatemala just wanted to nationalize its massive natural resources. Is so beautiful and rich the Kingdom of Guatemala established since 1609 and that extends from El Soconusco (today Chiapas) to part of Panama. Guatemala is 12th producer of silver in the world and 20th producer of gold besides having massive reserves of nickel, jade and so many other natural resources too bad for almost a century big foreign multinational anglosaxon corporations have been taking almost everything. Long live Juan Santamaria the heroe of Costa Rica who died in battle against the anglo pirates. The Malvinas belong to Argentina 🇦🇷, The Esequibo belongs to Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Belice belongs to Guatemala 🇬🇹. Guatemala exploited and sabotaged for almost a century but never gives up. God bless you all 🙏

[@ggtt2547]

Great episode. Very very interesting subject. Didn't give any details on how and why the whole army just refused to fight 500 mercenaries camped somewhere in the bush, though. Were they pro US and anti democratic allready? Was the threat of war with neighbor fascist regimes controlled by the US just around the corner? There is a big gap in the narrative missing here. It just doesn't feel that 500 mercenaries and a radio station spewing propaganda can bring down a whole country of 3.5 million people, if it isn't allready on the brink of collapse.

[@edivimo]

Your 1st statement was correct: they were pro-US and anti-democratic already.

[@Jay-ho9io]

You didn't listen to the episode very well at all.

[@ggtt2547]

@@Jay-ho9io That's why we have comments. Please elaborate.

[@Jay-ho9io]

@@ggtt2547 It's not. The comments are for discussing the video. There's no point in discussing anything with someone that didn't watch it.

[@ggtt2547]

@@Jay-ho9io Holy crap you are annoying. My bad trying to communicate

[@sfadam]

Please, let me clean your TV set!

[@bcvetkov8534]

Banana Republics are based.

[@KuroshMotamedi]

Love to see how barefoot Taliban humiliated Americans and kicked them out of Afghanistan.

[@kalle911]

love to see how barefoot Russians are getting kicked out of Ukraine))

[@deshaun9473]

@@kalle911 they're taking more and more territory as we speak.

[@SandraS415]

This information needs to be taught to the people against migration. They always think of it as an invasion. But they don't know that the U.S governments has always acted oppressive against the poor people of these countries. The greed and oppression needs to end .

[@ducknorris233]

Poll- Do you think Central America is in North or South America?

[@Game_Hero]

Now, the Soviet apologists from the earlier videos will finally be happy to have their whataboutism. "Our imperialism is better than yours!"

[@lainiwakura1776]

Tankies are hilarious.

[@AlexVanChezlaw]

Fuck both sides tbh

[@marlkarx1757]

Though the wording used is to downplay the US empire's actions,it does however show how the US as the fascist state it's always been.

[@scottkrater2131]

And what do you call the Facist Imperialist take over of Eastern Europe by the Soviets? They were no different from Imperialist Russia. The Tsar just got a new title and a new family name.

[@marlkarx1757]

@@scottkrater2131 careful now,your veering into whataboutery. This channel has countless videos picking the Soviet side of the cold war apart. It barely skirts the fascist US.

[@creatoruser736]

Democratically elected prime minister of Iran? Do you remember your own episode on that where Mosaddegh ended the voting after he had reached the majority and rigged a referendum to give himself dictatorial powers?

[@luiscruz8377]

biased ...

[@julianshepherd2038]

It's what Jesus would want. Thoughts and prayers to the starving children.

[@obi0914]

I mean play communist games win stupid communist prizes

[@Tomcat71]

Everyday I learn just how much we poke our nose in places it doesnt belong. Im in my 50s.

[@jamacianmecrazy1987]

More in depth source, Schlesinger and Kinzer's "Bitter Fruit." ISBN 13: 9780674075900