They don't hate you personally, nor should you take the blame personally for that those bastards do - you're a victim too in their world, you're part of their strategy. Cheers.
@@Tempusverum -- That's a fking ridiculous comparison. You can't compare a corporation buying swaths of land and enslaving an entire country to an individual buying a house in Italy. A more apt comparison would be how would you feel if you killed a guys entire family because you wanted to buy his house, and in retaliation he shot your dog. Where do idiots like you come from? You're like internet cockroaches. LOL
@@tofupowda def a good way, but I think he was already a communist by that point. His experience in Guatemala def changed him in a way, but he was already anti imperialist and anti American at that point.
Che and castro are evil. My grandfather was a poor 17 year old who was trying to jump in a make shift boat and the guards were shooting at them and captured his good friend and put him in a death camp. Do a little deeper research from people who physically escaped from there.
"Oh, Eisenhoweeer." "Yo, what's up?" "This Jacobo guy. He's- he's making us pay minimum wages!" "Well that doesn't sound very good for business." "That's not all though. He's also taking our unused land, and giving it back to the people! Does that sound familiar?" "Oh dear. You don't think-" "By the way it's looking, Dwight, I say he's a dirty, "Oh God." "collectivising," "No!" "Commie." *"COMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!"* "Yeah, go get 'em, Dwight!" *"REEEEEEEEEEE!!!"* *Gunshots* "Holy shit, you actually did it!" "Worldstar!"
@@peromiestiloesunico What do you mean? I was just referencing Sam o'Nella's video. www.google.com/search?q=sam+o%27nella+commie&oq=Sa&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46j69i60l3.1108j0j7&client=ms-android-gotron&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#
@@peromiestiloesunicoaccording to research arbenz was falsely accused of being a communist, he invited communist and right wings at his house just to prepared ahead of time who his enemies were , he was a capitalist
@@Nikimar72 Well since the French revolution was paid by German princes and intellectuals that must mean the French revolution was a pro German monarchy movement. When malcom x criticized other civil rights leaders for accepting money from whites and jews does that makes them Hollywood mayo supremacists or compromised civil rights leaders with conflict of interests.
The more I learn about the history of US foreign relations, the more I am convinced that we have created nearly every significant enemy of ours since 1945.
We did, GabrielReed! We had a good conservative growing government in Iran, but NO...the Oil corporation lobbyists worked with the CIA and the "Shah" was put in power. But he was a tyrant and so the muslim movement GAINED GROUND 2) Guatemala 3) Some countries in Africa. Now they are hopelessly rung by dictators, after dictator, after dictator... Nicaragua also. 4) THE WORST. was done by the "hotcrap popular" [should never have been considered a hero by the evangelicals ] Oliver North! That bastard raised funds to give arms to the Contras and BUT BY DOING DRUG TRADES with the CIA's help. BUT IT LED to the COCAINE INDUSTRY [ see movie "Blow" ] entering....ENTERING AMERICA...especially through....[are you read for it...?] through ARKANSAS. Who was the governor back then?? BILL CLINTON. yeah. Oliver North was NO HERO even if Fox News says he is.
Lookup how we were attacking the Nazis while Hitler gave orders not to retaliate and why Japan bombed Pearl harbor. I don't think we've ever been the good guys. Not saying the Nazis were either though.
Omg I don’t know how to feel about this. I’m Guatemalan and immigrated to the US a few years ago, I’m grateful for what this country has given me so far, but this is just awful 😢, I feel bad for all my brothers that were affected by this.
this coming from a chapina it has taken me to time but i have realized even if what the united states has given us is good this opportunity is still bare minimum we are allowed to see US in a negative way and we are allowed to be angry at what they have done to us and they are involvement with our country and how it has impacted . we dont owe them anything , they owe latinoamérica and all the other countries they have left impression on
In Guatemala you were dangerous as you're home and land is what they wanted, now that they got what they wanted, you out of the land, you in the usa are a slave and you will be genocided as you know their is anti latino male propaganda to the max, you're woman will mostly have euro or even African children. Remember the enemy of the euro man in america has and always will be the Native American.
@@rafg891 what are you talking about? 😂 It’s so obvious that you have never been in the US… And no, my wife just had our baby, and He is 100% from Guatemalan heritage.
Can someone tell me what full-length documentary this is from? Ive seen similar material in Pilgers War Against Democracy, but I think this is slightly better. It is more in-depth
My mother left Guatemala for the US in the 1980’s in order to flee the civil war caused by US imperialism and to help her family back in Guatemala. The stories she told me of the poverty and various people going missing not to mention the mental scars of living through that time period was a huge factor as to why I became a socialist specifically an anarchist. There’s a quote from a documentary on South African apartheid I love to say whenever people around me wonder why the US has so many enemies. “In its attempts to safeguard the state, the state has created innumerable enemies dedicated to its destruction”
@@kalzaAlza No it's not. Nice sentiment but so wrong. Look what they just did in Ecuador - you didn't miss that, did you? Or in Venezuela? By the anti-war president? Check the final lines of Animal Farm - they're all the same.
I am 3 minutes in, and I can’t keep watching (and I knew from books what happened). Simply atrocious. This can’t go on unacknowledged. Reparations are needed and a public apology in the very least.
don't you just love how now it's cool and chic to buy fair trade coffee so that everyone benefits, from the worker to the consumer? Gee, I wonder who the bad guys really are?
when my grandparents immigrated from guatemala to US they lived in LA many years they surrounded themself with familiar culture and worked hard they were able to get by when my mom adapted to US and mastered english in her young adult years they moved to a neighborhood with better schools and less crime (it happened to be white) what they didnt know was they must adapt to what seem like a whole nother country deprived of culture language barrier and to top it off nobody accepted them i still remember i would come home from the kindergarten my neighbor would never fail to shout go back to your country all the walk from car to front door my grandma didnt understand but she quickly realized it was bad white kids would throw stuff at our house and our neighborhood made a show of isolating us but on the topic of bananas these were all they sold there my grandparents would make a trip to LA just to buy local bananas, family sent bananas, or salvadoran market bananas point is these UFC bananas was a nono at the end they couldnt stand the discrimination (and lack of diversity) and we moved back to la they dream to make enough money to go back to the homeland soon and be able to easily help our family there my mom is also sick of US but she dreams to live in nother continent lol
Funny how Northern Europeans tell us "real Americans' to go back when we never left our continent like they did, we are just walking around our own continent.
Very interesting. Does the KGB officer in Mexico's claim there was no "logistical support" mean there was however financial or other support ??? Notice how all documentaries on Arbenz here on TH-cam are in Spanish, the English spoken ones are about the Dulles brothers or the UFC. There's one with English subtitles, but it doesn't add a lot I didn't know yet. Howart E Hunt must have had quite an adventurous life :)
@EkajTheSwordsman No, even the US goverment has admited that GUatemalan Intervention was based on a thousand lies to overtrow Arbenz, cause the Land Reform, because it affected UFCO'S privileges. Castillo Armas began wich become lately in the Guatemalan Genocide in the 80's
"Inasmuch as U.S. interventionism, NATO, the bloated military budget, & a host of other cold war relics have not disappeared at all, it appears that what's been proven fraudulent is the doctrine of the Cold War had been a moral struggle to contain an evil, expansionist Soviet Union, when in fact -- as skeptics like myself have maintained -- it had been about American imperialism all along, with "communist" merely the name given to those who stood in the way." -- William Blum, West Bloc Dissident
Secretary Of State John Foster Dulles represented United Fruit an American Company in Guatemala . United Fruit was angry because peasants who worked in slave labor were given land to grow their own fruit by president Guzman. United Fruit had never paid land taxes . The poor peasants paid land taxes on the land they worked. During the CIA coup to oust Guzman the senseless killing of the poor began. Bodies of peasants who were alive were thrown out of planes to their death . Vans of armed men kidnapped peasants . If their loved ones asked their whereabouts their tongues were cut out. I’ve read figures of 30,000 murdered over the CIA Coup . Republican President Eisenhower ordered the coup . Secretary Of State , John Dulles was a conservative who professed to be a Christian who went to Eisenhower requesting him to oust President Guzman . Eisenhower ordered a genocide of the poor in Guatemala for the specific purpose to aid the rich and execute the poor . The CIA Couo was to destroy democracy in Guatemala & finance the rich. President Guzman was not a communist .
As a result of the US Corporate Fascism, peasants and workers in Central American and in the Caribbean region never got a chance to establish a solid middle-class like in the United States. Today illegal workers flocking to US border in search of jobs are the consequences of repression of workers' movements. The US government was guilty of giving to a few companies the monopoly to control all the wealth of Central America. It was the same as ruthless Spanish colonialism and exploitation.
This is about the US trying to overthrow a democratically elected president to pursue the business interest of a banana company paying the locals slave wages and dont pay no taxes as well.
I am doing a work for US History please help! In what different ways did the U.S. put pressure on Arbenz? To what extent did economics play a role in U.S. intervention? (You must make arguments both supporting and countering the economic claim.) What is significant about the Dulles brothers? What role did the USSR play?
+Martin I´ll try to answer as briefly as I can. Pressure of the US: Propaganda against Arbenz for the sake of public opinion, stop selling weapons to Guatemala in 1951, stop any aconomical assistance in 1953, send John Peurifoy to "negotiate", the OAE Venezuela conference of 1954 where Dulles tried to gain continental support against Guatemala and the CIA operations like WASHTUB and PBFORTUNE that were carried out before Castillo´s coup. Economics: Arbenz reforms took land away from the UFCO (which in reality didn´t matter because the company had A LOT of land that was not being used for anything) and the fact that Labour Code demanded a lot of stuff that was against their interests (Better salaries and working conditions, the right to strike, the right to organize in unions, paid vacations, compensation in case of firing, etc). However, in other way one can make the argument that was for the common good of Guatemala. Dulles Brothers: Easy, dude. One was secretary of State and the other was chief of the CIA. Both of them had business with the UFCO in one way or another so Arbenz reforms annoyed a couple of guys that were pretty damn powerful in the US government. USSR: Not A LOT but they did had a role. The soviets had contact mainly with the Guatemalan Communist Party (PGT) and when Arbenz became desperate for weapons near the end of his government he secretly contacted the USSR with the help of his main advisor (Communist leader Jose Manuel Fortuny) to buy a cargo of weapons. However, the US found out about this and matters became even worse. The soviets protested the US intevention in Guatemala but they didn´t do anything to help Arbenz, since they wanted to avoid a confrontation with the US. Hope it helps.
Why was the Arbenz government buying up all that uncultivated land? It seemed like Arbenz was a good man who was trying to reform his country, but what does "land reform" mean? What was the point?
Jacobo Árbenz believed that the main problem with Guatemala was the fact that the whole economic infraestructure of the country was practically controlled by US corporations within a system that favored economic imperialism and the power of the foreign companies over the interests of the nation. Most of these corporations didn´t pay taxes, they were practically monopolies that demanded special treatment and favours from the government and they refused to follow the Labour Code, along with the luxury of having tons of cheap labour force, mainly in the form of poor peasants and mayans. About 3/4 of the whole land in the country belonged to barely 2% of the population (mainly powerful businessmen and wealthy families that had power since the colony) making Guatemala a country with an alarming rate of inequality. All of these methods exploited the lower classes and drowned the country in an economic dependency of the United States. Árbenz Land Reform was basically a proyect in which "lazy land" (land that was not being used for anything productive) was taken away from the corporations and the landlords in orger to give it to peasant families. The landlords received a compensation though, but many were extremely angry. You could say that Árbenz was a moderate socialist, but in reality a lot of his policies had a lot of sense and many were even capitalist in nature.
Yup, this is what lobbying has being doing since more than 100 years ago. Eisenhower let this and Iranian coup of 1953 happen over bananas and oil. Oil is the same reason why we created endless wars in the middle east
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll certainly look it out. I am so touched by alll these innocent lives lost and wounded, and traumatized. 💔😭💔. God bless you all and protect you
Im pretty sure this clip is from CNN's Cold War Documentary Series with the episode being called "Backyards" Here the link to that: th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
@mzindpendent7 "terrorist" You got it. In the words of Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, "War is a racket: A few profit and the many pay." Here's another quote: "We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. We should cease to talk about unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. [W]e are going to have to deal in straight power concepts." -George F. Kennan, U.S. State Dept Policy Planning Study 23, February 1948
hoy Guatemala fuera un gran paiz si tan solo no hubiera dejado ue los e.u. y un puño de traidores se hubieran intrometido en el camino. Today. Guatemala would be a great country if only those f. traitors and the you know who would get in the way.
Cuál es la gana de comparar con Bukele, el tipo va bien, va a su ritmo, su gente lo quiere y lo ha defendido más, nosotros dejamos que humillaran a Arbenz, que lo desnudaran y dañarán su honor al señalarlo de comunista bajo nuestras narices o al menos bajo las narices de la población de medidos del siglo XX. Aceptamos dictaduras, asesinatos en masa, masacres con justificaciones penosas como la de Panzos. Deberíamos dejar a Bukele hacer lo suyo y preocuparnos por el chiquero que tenemos como Estado
Lol I did not expect them to get the real Fidel Castro in on this documentary. Even the man who committed hundreds of atrocities was like.... "They weren't even really reforming jack....?"
Communism is and will always be a threat to anyone, but the thing is, a country like the US who enjoys preaching about freedom did something anyone could expect from places like Rusia or china (a red force trying to expand their crap with fear while cleaning their asses with people's disagreement), their deeds lead my country into decades of right wing dictatorships (not different from the very critiziced left wing dictatorships which I do not support) and full support to the oligarchy, reducing public education and summiting us to experience a very noticeable corruption, indigenous communities being killed or almost vanished while blaming them on being communist factions, The UN said that during Efrain Rios Montt's period, 93% of crimes against humanity were done by Guatemala's armed forces while the remaining 7% belonged to the communist guerilla. (There is a movie called "La Llorona" by Jairo Bustamante, which portrays part of Montt's judgement while feeding the movie with a little bit of paranormal horror, as I've seen many US citizens saying that it portrays the harm done by the spaniards and I'm here to disagree and spread what it really shows which is just one of the many right wing dictatorships we had during the 20th century).
They make everything funny, both this is real,Arbenz he Estuding In Harvard,because he is intelligent God Bless Guatemala y Coronel Arbenz and we forget everything because Jesús is love he seid love you're enemy and God say and aiforguet you're sing Amen.
Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki Jorge Ubico Jorge Ubico Castañeda (10 November 1878 - 14 June 1946), nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan dictator.
@bapyou wow you have done some good research if only other people were capable of seeing truth like these, instead of supporting and being proud of the US... for doing that :/
"Los Estados Unidos parecen destinados por la providencia para plagar la América de miseria en nombre de la libertad" - Simón Bolívar De hecho por las guerras bananeras
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Guatemala...oh how you were coerced, betrayed, and oppressed by a foreign power.😥
One of the first in the post-war period. All systems are go! 😡
I was totally shocked by the CIA' guy's words. Reminds me of Mike Pompeo's recent interview, an absolute must see...
Bingo.
my jaw was dropped for half of this video!
I'm an American learning this in university. no wonder people hate us. i get it
If you bought real estate in Sicily and the mayor gave your villa to the homeless what would you do?
They don't hate you personally, nor should you take the blame personally for that those bastards do - you're a victim too in their world, you're part of their strategy. Cheers.
@@Tempusverum not the same at all.
So does everyother country
@@Tempusverum -- That's a fking ridiculous comparison. You can't compare a corporation buying swaths of land and enslaving an entire country to an individual buying a house in Italy. A more apt comparison would be how would you feel if you killed a guys entire family because you wanted to buy his house, and in retaliation he shot your dog. Where do idiots like you come from? You're like internet cockroaches. LOL
And that was the day Che Guevara changed
In a good or bad way?
@@meditations219 good way
@@tofupowda def a good way, but I think he was already a communist by that point. His experience in Guatemala def changed him in a way, but he was already anti imperialist and anti American at that point.
Che and castro are evil. My grandfather was a poor 17 year old who was trying to jump in a make shift boat and the guards were shooting at them and captured his good friend and put him in a death camp. Do a little deeper research from people who physically escaped from there.
@@kisabeldemure9224 You 🤨 YOU
have family that was affected by this. It still frustrates me to this day and it breaks my heart to know what my family had to go through.
"Oh, Eisenhoweeer."
"Yo, what's up?"
"This Jacobo guy. He's- he's making us pay minimum wages!"
"Well that doesn't sound very good for business."
"That's not all though. He's also taking our unused land, and giving it back to the people! Does that sound familiar?"
"Oh dear. You don't think-"
"By the way it's looking, Dwight, I say he's a dirty,
"Oh God."
"collectivising,"
"No!"
"Commie."
*"COMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!"*
"Yeah, go get 'em, Dwight!"
*"REEEEEEEEEEE!!!"*
*Gunshots*
"Holy shit, you actually did it!"
"Worldstar!"
Have you seen fortuny's political party logos on wikipedia? How can you explain that?
@@peromiestiloesunico What do you mean? I was just referencing Sam o'Nella's video.
www.google.com/search?q=sam+o%27nella+commie&oq=Sa&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j46j69i60l3.1108j0j7&client=ms-android-gotron&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#
@@sarpbakrsoy8125 They were actual comies in GT
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Party_of_Labour
@@peromiestiloesunicoaccording to research arbenz was falsely accused of being a communist, he invited communist and right wings at his house just to prepared ahead of time who his enemies were , he was a capitalist
@@Nikimar72 Well since the French revolution was paid by German princes and intellectuals that must mean the French revolution was a pro German monarchy movement.
When malcom x criticized other civil rights leaders for accepting money from whites and jews does that makes them Hollywood mayo supremacists or compromised civil rights leaders with conflict of interests.
The more I learn about the history of US foreign relations, the more I am convinced that we have created nearly every significant enemy of ours since 1945.
We did, GabrielReed! We had a good conservative growing government in Iran, but NO...the Oil corporation lobbyists worked with the CIA and the "Shah" was put in power. But he was a tyrant and so the muslim movement GAINED GROUND 2) Guatemala 3) Some countries in Africa. Now they are hopelessly rung by dictators, after dictator, after dictator... Nicaragua also. 4) THE WORST. was done by the "hotcrap popular" [should never have been considered a hero by the evangelicals ] Oliver North! That bastard raised funds to give arms to the Contras and BUT BY DOING DRUG TRADES with the CIA's help. BUT IT LED to the COCAINE INDUSTRY [ see movie "Blow" ] entering....ENTERING AMERICA...especially through....[are you read for it...?] through ARKANSAS. Who was the governor back then?? BILL CLINTON. yeah. Oliver North was NO HERO even if Fox News says he is.
Lookup how we were attacking the Nazis while Hitler gave orders not to retaliate and why Japan bombed Pearl harbor. I don't think we've ever been the good guys. Not saying the Nazis were either though.
Omg I don’t know how to feel about this. I’m Guatemalan and immigrated to the US a few years ago, I’m grateful for what this country has given me so far, but this is just awful 😢, I feel bad for all my brothers that were affected by this.
this coming from a chapina it has taken me to time but i have realized even if what the united states has given us is good this opportunity is still bare minimum we are allowed to see US in a negative way and we are allowed to be angry at what they have done to us and they are involvement with our country and how it has impacted . we dont owe them anything , they owe latinoamérica and all the other countries they have left impression on
My grandma said that Armas was a good man. He gave her shoes & other kids who didn't have any
In Guatemala you were dangerous as you're home and land is what they wanted, now that they got what they wanted, you out of the land, you in the usa are a slave and you will be genocided as you know their is anti latino male propaganda to the max, you're woman will mostly have euro or even African children. Remember the enemy of the euro man in america has and always will be the Native American.
@@rafg891 what are you talking about? 😂 It’s so obvious that you have never been in the US… And no, my wife just had our baby, and He is 100% from Guatemalan heritage.
Can someone tell me what full-length documentary this is from? Ive seen similar material in Pilgers War Against Democracy, but I think this is slightly better. It is more in-depth
I assumed it was John Pilger speaking so have no idea
My mother left Guatemala for the US in the 1980’s in order to flee the civil war caused by US imperialism and to help her family back in Guatemala. The stories she told me of the poverty and various people going missing not to mention the mental scars of living through that time period was a huge factor as to why I became a socialist specifically an anarchist. There’s a quote from a documentary on South African apartheid I love to say whenever people around me wonder why the US has so many enemies.
“In its attempts to safeguard the state, the state has created innumerable enemies dedicated to its destruction”
USA some day gonna pay all they do in guatemala.
mario alfredo That's not how the world works.
@@deussivenatura5805 yes it does
@@kalzaAlza No it's not. Nice sentiment but so wrong. Look what they just did in Ecuador - you didn't miss that, did you? Or in Venezuela? By the anti-war president? Check the final lines of Animal Farm - they're all the same.
@@amycrunch3812 wtf r u talkin about
Blame Dulles brothers for that and Eisenhower for giving the right to them to overthrow Arbenz
Incredibly telling how the CIA agent positively compares American aggression to the Nazis.
I am 3 minutes in, and I can’t keep watching (and I knew from books what happened). Simply atrocious. This can’t go on unacknowledged. Reparations are needed and a public apology in the very least.
Apology will come when USA is defeated.
This is a very good documentary. It looks like the first part of a longer one. If you have put up the rest of it, please direct me to that.
good luck
It’s part of The Cold War series by the BBC.
"What we wanted to do was have a Terror campaign"
Cool fucking country.
don't you just love how now it's cool and chic to buy fair trade coffee so that everyone benefits, from the worker to the consumer? Gee, I wonder who the bad guys really are?
What's the original source/full title of this documentary?
Did you ever find out?
@@gsanmi0431 th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
Is this from a documentary? What is it called so I can watch the entire interesting topic?
when my grandparents immigrated from guatemala to US they lived in LA many years they surrounded themself with familiar culture and worked hard they were able to get by when my mom adapted to US and mastered english in her young adult years they moved to a neighborhood with better schools and less crime (it happened to be white) what they didnt know was they must adapt to what seem like a whole nother country deprived of culture language barrier and to top it off nobody accepted them i still remember i would come home from the kindergarten my neighbor would never fail to shout go back to your country all the walk from car to front door my grandma didnt understand but she quickly realized it was bad white kids would throw stuff at our house and our neighborhood made a show of isolating us but on the topic of bananas these were all they sold there my grandparents would make a trip to LA just to buy local bananas, family sent bananas, or salvadoran market bananas point is these UFC bananas was a nono at the end they couldnt stand the discrimination (and lack of diversity) and we moved back to la they dream to make enough money to go back to the homeland soon and be able to easily help our family there my mom is also sick of US but she dreams to live in nother continent lol
Funny how Northern Europeans tell us "real Americans' to go back when we never left our continent like they did, we are just walking around our own continent.
Very interesting. Does the KGB officer in Mexico's claim there was no "logistical support" mean there was however financial or other support ??? Notice how all documentaries on Arbenz here on TH-cam are in Spanish, the English spoken ones are about the Dulles brothers or the UFC. There's one with English subtitles, but it doesn't add a lot I didn't know yet. Howart E Hunt must have had quite an adventurous life :)
@EkajTheSwordsman Arbenz didn't kill anyone! Rios Montt Did!
Arbenz was not a Communist! Arbenz y Arévalo los mejores presidentes q ha tenido Guatemala!
He wasn't the person that replaced him was
Which documentary is this video clip from?
th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
Where is this clip from? Name of the documentary? Looking to use this as a source!
pay me
th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
i dont eat anymore Mcdonalds coke pepsi, kfc, burger king, etc. yankees pineaple mosquitos
@EkajTheSwordsman No, even the US goverment has admited that GUatemalan Intervention was based on a thousand lies to overtrow Arbenz, cause the Land Reform, because it affected UFCO'S privileges. Castillo Armas began wich become lately in the Guatemalan Genocide in the 80's
"Inasmuch as U.S. interventionism, NATO, the bloated military budget, & a host of other cold war relics have not disappeared at all, it appears that what's been proven fraudulent is the doctrine of the Cold War had been a moral struggle to contain an evil, expansionist Soviet Union, when in fact -- as skeptics like myself have maintained -- it had been about American imperialism all along, with "communist" merely the name given to those who stood in the way." -- William Blum, West Bloc Dissident
Bill Blum's the man. All the way.
Secretary Of State John Foster Dulles represented United Fruit an American Company in Guatemala . United Fruit was angry because peasants who worked in slave labor were given land to grow their own fruit by president Guzman.
United Fruit had never paid land taxes . The poor peasants paid land taxes on the land they worked.
During the CIA coup to oust Guzman the senseless killing of the poor began.
Bodies of peasants who were alive were thrown out of planes to their death .
Vans of armed men kidnapped peasants . If their loved ones asked their whereabouts their tongues were cut out. I’ve read figures of 30,000 murdered over the CIA Coup .
Republican President Eisenhower ordered the coup . Secretary Of State , John Dulles was a conservative who professed to be a Christian who went to Eisenhower requesting him to oust President Guzman .
Eisenhower ordered a genocide of the poor in Guatemala for the specific purpose to aid the rich and execute the poor . The CIA Couo was to destroy democracy in Guatemala & finance the rich. President Guzman was not a communist .
As a result of the US Corporate Fascism, peasants and workers in Central American and in the Caribbean region never got a chance to establish a solid middle-class like in the United States.
Today illegal workers flocking to US border in search of jobs are the consequences of repression of workers' movements. The US government was guilty of giving to a few companies the monopoly to control all the wealth of Central America.
It was the same as ruthless Spanish colonialism and exploitation.
What documentary is this?
This is about the US trying to overthrow a democratically elected president to pursue the business interest of a banana company paying the locals slave wages and dont pay no taxes as well.
th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
unos de los mejores presidentes de la historia mundial
sorry guys, I was killed by the irony of hearing a CIA agent complain about foreign interference.
Where can i see the full thing
wut u mean i can't exploit my slav-i mean employees
@stephenblackman2003a CNN's 'Cold War' series.
CNN did this??!?
I watch this for entertainment, not to debate.
You should watch to educate yourself too
Alguna traducción de este documental
Aquí está, subtitulado
th-cam.com/video/QJSuzfsAZug/w-d-xo.html
Es una serie de llama: cold war - cnn ( guerra fria)
Episodio 18/24
Now millions of us are here whether you like it OR NOT
I am doing a work for US History please help!
In what different ways did the U.S. put pressure on Arbenz?
To what extent did economics play a role in U.S. intervention? (You must make arguments both
supporting and countering the economic claim.)
What is significant about the Dulles brothers?
What role did the USSR play?
+Martin Joven por favor haga su trabajo solito.
+Martin I´ll try to answer as briefly as I can.
Pressure of the US: Propaganda against Arbenz for the sake of public opinion, stop selling weapons to Guatemala in 1951, stop any aconomical assistance in 1953, send John Peurifoy to "negotiate", the OAE Venezuela conference of 1954 where Dulles tried to gain continental support against Guatemala and the CIA operations like WASHTUB and PBFORTUNE that were carried out before Castillo´s coup.
Economics: Arbenz reforms took land away from the UFCO (which in reality didn´t matter because the company had A LOT of land that was not being used for anything) and the fact that Labour Code demanded a lot of stuff that was against their interests (Better salaries and working conditions, the right to strike, the right to organize in unions, paid vacations, compensation in case of firing, etc). However, in other way one can make the argument that was for the common good of Guatemala.
Dulles Brothers: Easy, dude. One was secretary of State and the other was chief of the CIA. Both of them had business with the UFCO in one way or another so Arbenz reforms annoyed a couple of guys that were pretty damn powerful in the US government.
USSR: Not A LOT but they did had a role. The soviets had contact mainly with the Guatemalan Communist Party (PGT) and when Arbenz became desperate for weapons near the end of his government he secretly contacted the USSR with the help of his main advisor (Communist leader Jose Manuel Fortuny) to buy a cargo of weapons.
However, the US found out about this and matters became even worse.
The soviets protested the US intevention in Guatemala but they didn´t do anything to help Arbenz, since they wanted to avoid a confrontation with the US.
Hope it helps.
Deaths squads. Read books. Devil's chessboard David talbot and bitter fruit by Stephen kinzer
Why was the Arbenz government buying up all that uncultivated land? It seemed like Arbenz was a good man who was trying to reform his country, but what does "land reform" mean? What was the point?
Jacobo Árbenz believed that the main problem with Guatemala was the fact that the whole economic infraestructure of the country was practically controlled by US corporations within a system that favored economic imperialism and the power of the foreign companies over the interests of the nation.
Most of these corporations didn´t pay taxes, they were practically monopolies that demanded special treatment and favours from the government and they refused to follow the Labour Code, along with the luxury of having tons of cheap labour force, mainly in the form of poor peasants and mayans. About 3/4 of the whole land in the country belonged to barely 2% of the population (mainly powerful businessmen and wealthy families that had power since the colony) making Guatemala a country with an alarming rate of inequality.
All of these methods exploited the lower classes and drowned the country in an economic dependency of the United States.
Árbenz Land Reform was basically a proyect in which "lazy land" (land that was not being used for anything productive) was taken away from the corporations and the landlords in orger to give it to peasant families. The landlords received a compensation though, but many were extremely angry.
You could say that Árbenz was a moderate socialist, but in reality a lot of his policies had a lot of sense and many were even capitalist in nature.
the US did to Latin America what Russia did to South East Europe
Interesting that the two airports near Washington DC are Reagan and Dulles
Yup, this is what lobbying has being doing since more than 100 years ago. Eisenhower let this and Iranian coup of 1953 happen over bananas and oil. Oil is the same reason why we created endless wars in the middle east
It was either capitalism or communism. No matter what.
whats the name of the orginial film
I think “war on democracy”
Read The Banana Massacre, a novel by Jim Yoakum
any link
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll certainly look it out. I am so touched by alll these innocent lives lost and wounded, and traumatized. 💔😭💔.
God bless you all and protect you
A testament to the power of propaganda programming.
WORKERS GETTING A DECENT WAGES? TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION!
Im pretty sure this clip is from CNN's Cold War Documentary Series with the episode being called "Backyards"
Here the link to that: th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!!
I found the book on this 2 years ago.
The CIA In Guatemala The Foreign Policy of Intervention, Richard H Immerman
what is the name
@mzindpendent7 "terrorist"
You got it. In the words of Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, "War is a racket: A few profit and the many pay."
Here's another quote:
"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. We should cease to talk about unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. [W]e are going to have to deal in straight power concepts." -George F. Kennan, U.S. State Dept Policy Planning Study 23, February 1948
this real
okay but can anyone provide a name for the full documentary?
I think it is from the documentary series "Cold War" (2012) by Jeremy Isaacs and Pat Mitchell and that it is the episode "Backyard"
they keep concealing it
ese viejito de la CIA ya se murio
Que se pudra
hoy
Guatemala fuera un gran paiz si tan solo no hubiera dejado ue los e.u. y un puño de traidores se hubieran intrometido en el camino.
Today. Guatemala would be a great country if only those f. traitors and the you know who would get in the way.
@EkajTheSwordsman Yes, but Dwight Eisenhower and Castillo Armas started it all
Not Ike. A passive but willing observer. You want the Dulles brothers. Lots of people would have loved to.
full doc?
th-cam.com/video/WRgwovJn-t0/w-d-xo.html
i am an arbenzista!
Its weird they never mention the party logos of mister Fortuny
You want to give labour's a living wage with disposable income sounds like comi talk
Bukele es una PEQUEÑA sombra de lo grande que era El SOLDADO DEL PUEBLO EX PRESIDENTE CORONEL ARBEZ GUZMÁN
Cuál es la gana de comparar con Bukele, el tipo va bien, va a su ritmo, su gente lo quiere y lo ha defendido más, nosotros dejamos que humillaran a Arbenz, que lo desnudaran y dañarán su honor al señalarlo de comunista bajo nuestras narices o al menos bajo las narices de la población de medidos del siglo XX. Aceptamos dictaduras, asesinatos en masa, masacres con justificaciones penosas como la de Panzos. Deberíamos dejar a Bukele hacer lo suyo y preocuparnos por el chiquero que tenemos como Estado
eren yega
@CULTURALTRAVELS he was my great cousin.
Waiting for a Nurenberg like trial for the CIA
@EkajTheSwordsman you don't know anything about our history... please if you will write something so convinced, read some before...
Lol I did not expect them to get the real Fidel Castro in on this documentary. Even the man who committed hundreds of atrocities was like.... "They weren't even really reforming jack....?"
That was funny
Was communism a threat to Guatemala?
yes. Another cuba in central america would be a catastrophe.
@@hellotheir1427 Ir wasn’t . Stop lying
Communism is and will always be a threat to anyone, but the thing is, a country like the US who enjoys preaching about freedom did something anyone could expect from places like Rusia or china (a red force trying to expand their crap with fear while cleaning their asses with people's disagreement), their deeds lead my country into decades of right wing dictatorships (not different from the very critiziced left wing dictatorships which I do not support) and full support to the oligarchy, reducing public education and summiting us to experience a very noticeable corruption, indigenous communities being killed or almost vanished while blaming them on being communist factions, The UN said that during Efrain Rios Montt's period, 93% of crimes against humanity were done by Guatemala's armed forces while the remaining 7% belonged to the communist guerilla. (There is a movie called "La Llorona" by Jairo Bustamante, which portrays part of Montt's judgement while feeding the movie with a little bit of paranormal horror, as I've seen many US citizens saying that it portrays the harm done by the spaniards and I'm here to disagree and spread what it really shows which is just one of the many right wing dictatorships we had during the 20th century).
@@alexchavake3185It was
They make everything funny, both this is real,Arbenz he Estuding In Harvard,because he is intelligent God Bless Guatemala y Coronel Arbenz and we forget everything because Jesús is love he seid love you're enemy and God say and aiforguet you're sing Amen.
Look at the mexican movie "el violin". 💔
4:52 The Catholic Church was behind the entire conflict.
Most likely, yes. As throughout the Americas. They got kicked out of Ecuador and they've been working to stop reforms on Haïti.
Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki
Jorge Ubico
Jorge Ubico Castañeda (10 November 1878 - 14 June 1946), nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan dictator.
How do you spell scum?
Glad you ask.
Dulles
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@sukamotote69 they don't teach you sh#$ here in the U.S either.
Oh fuck no. LOL.
Thanks
may fidel never die, he is ouer last hope of revolution!
May he rot where he is, a fucking monster that man was, I would spit on his grave if I wanted to.
Bruh
Fidel was in this wtf
Just cause you've got numbers in brackets doesn't mean you've got citations to back them up.
Hahaha good one
THERE WAS NO SOVIET MISSION IN Q///
6:55 Land Reform////
"I.E. the Soviet Union" ....pssshhh
down with the goddamn us empire!!!!
Who will bring them down? And will a single successor be any better?
FIGHT TWO FRONTS////
@bapyou wow you have done some good research if only other people were capable of seeing truth like these, instead of supporting and being proud of the US... for doing that :/
Expertos en la mentira y hacer tamales.
Don't support korea don't support cuba
JOSE MANUEL FORTUNU
Sure sounds like what china is doing with the ports and business
Ese día mi país se cago
"Los Estados Unidos parecen destinados por la providencia para plagar la América de miseria en nombre de la libertad"
- Simón Bolívar
De hecho por las guerras bananeras
@the officials
HOWARD HUNT WATERGATE/////
Joseph Stalin was sending aid to those who wanted to nationalize the land. What were we do?
Where's thr proof? Or is that something you pulled out of your ass?
Are you the comic interlude? 🤣
HOWARD HUNT////
KBG OFFICER MEXICO////
🪩🎐🌐🗺️🧳🗾don't support
Arbenz had to go. He should have known that having Communist allies in his government was a no-no during the Cold War.
S G It was none of our business, and our government committed criminal acts, no better than the Soviets. Two wrongs don't make a right.
S G what communist allies?
Why should he know what? Who the F are you?
God I love America, no other nation has that much power
or ignorance
Or an intelligence group run by greedy men
@@happymikasa7226cope
Yea “ Power “ because they want to be in the whole words business taking resources that’s not even theirs you fool lol …. Ignorant to the max !
Destroyers of good people's right to live decently