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Shadow Wars: How the CIA Toppled Governments Across South America
In 1954, the CIA orchestrated one of its earliest and most controversial covert operations in Latin America, known as Operation PBSUCCESS. Targeting Guatemala’s democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz, the U.S. government sought to protect American corporate interests, notably those of the influential United Fruit Company. Árbenz’s progressive reforms, including land redistribution to peasants, alarmed Washington ...