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How CIA overthrew Guatemala's elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)

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January 22, 2023

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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.

This is PART 15 of the Empire and the Deep State series Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

(This episode was recorded in October 2022.)

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Historian Aaron GoodPresident JacoboUnited Fruit Company ChiquitaDwight EisenhowerSoutheast AsiaDeep StateBen NortonAaron Good

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