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Title: Shattered Hope by Piero Gleijeses ISBN: 0-691-02556-8 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 28 July, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Historical Document
Comment: A great book which ilustrated me about this part of the history of my country. All these events are not so known in Guatemala, and it was great to have the chance to know a lot more about them. As guatemalan people use to do, I don't publish my name.
Rating: 5
Summary: a lucid account of this tragic history
Comment: In "Shattered Hope" author Piero Gleijeses exposes the ruthlessness and tyrrany of US imperial policy in Guatemala.
"Shattered Hope" relates how, in 1944, a revolution there overthrew a vicious, US-backed tyrant, leading to the establishment of Jacobo Arbenz's democratic government modeled after Roosevelt's New Deal. From 1944 to 1954, successful independent economic development which forsook US interests and attended to the needs of Guatemala's poor was initiated.
"Shattered Hope" illustrates how Arbenz's reform-based policies caused hysteria in the US as Eisenhower and Dulles warned that the policies of Guatemala, based on independent nationalism, were a threat to the security of the US and its imperialist Monroe Doctrine. The situation in Guatemala was adverse to US interests because of the "Communist" influence based on militant advocacy of social reforms and nationalistic policies.
As is noted in "Shattered Hope" the fact that Dulles had financial interests in the United Fruit Company was essential to the formation of US policy towards Guatemala. The nationalist policies of the Arbenz government, including the persecution of foreign economic interests, especially the United Fruit Company, had gained the support or acquiescence of almost all Guatemalans. The Arbenz government was proceeding to mobilize the hitherto politically inert peasantry while undermining the power of large landholders.
"Shattered Hope" illustrates how this was just too much for Dulles and the US which, from 1952 to 1954 orchastrated a coup, desposing Arbenz and subjecting Guatemala to 40 years of terror, murder and poverty.
One of the more objective and lucid accounts of Guatemala's tragic post-war history, "Shattered Hope" provides readers with a intelligible account of CIA-manufactured destabilization which has been transposed upon myriad nations around the world by the US.
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Title: Secret History: The Cia's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 by Nick Cullather, Piero Gleijeses ISBN: 0804733112 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The CIA in Guatemala (Texas Pan American Series) by Richard H. Immerman ISBN: 0292710836 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen C. Schlesinger, Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer ISBN: 0674075900 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 by Piero Gleijeses ISBN: 0807854646 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 24 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America by Jeffery M. Paige ISBN: 0674136497 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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