Terror in Latin America and the Caribbean » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
On September 9, 1954, deposed Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz left
for exile. Three months earlier the CIA had colluded with Guatemala’s
wealthy elite to engineer a military coup. Civil war between leftist
insurgents and the CIA-supported Guatemalan military lasted three
decades and took the lives of 200,000 mostly indigenous and poor
Guatemalans.
