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...William J. Griffith Por qué lucha Guatemala. Arénalo y Arbenz: Dos hombres contra un imperio . By Galich Manuel . Buenos Aires , 1956 . Elmer Editor . Pp. 374 . Paper . Copyright 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 ...

... that deposed Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Richard Immerman’s The CIA in Guatemala provided the scholarly analysis of the agency’s operations. Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer’s Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala , gave professors a less analytical but more engaging...

...Jim Handy Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 In his 1953 address to the Guatemalan congress, President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán declared, “The Agrarian Reform Law begins the economic transformation of Guatemala; it is the most precious fruit of the revolution and the fundamental base...

... University Press 1992 In Shattered Hope the word hope signifies in particular the 1951-54 presidential term of Jacobo Arbenz, “the best government” that Guatemala “ever had” (p. 380). Shattered signifies the overthrow of Arbenz and the return of dictators to Guatemala, while “The Guatemalan...

... of CIA-State Department perfidy in the United States—sponsored 1954 coup against the Jacobo Arbenz government of Guatemala. What closer observers have long suspected has now been proven. The incriminating evidence? Government documents released to these authors under the Freedom of Information Act...

.... These sources are generally adequate. But there is one exception—the Guatemala of President Jacobo Arbenz. The overthrow of Arbenz constitutes a landmark of Eisenhower’s Latin American policy and Rabe’s most extensive case study. In outlining the covert operation against Arbenz, Rabe relies on two excellent...

... political movements in each country. The sections on Guatemala richly describe its political development. No one would dispute Yashar’s convincing portrayal of the Arevalo and Arbenz years (1945-54) as reformist and democratizing, nor her characterization of the Castillo invasion as counterreformist...

... overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Handy’s focus is on the impact on rural society of revolutionary programs, especially the 1952 agrarian reform law known as Decree 900. Initially popular, the agrarian reform was at first successful in achieving its general goals, but according to Handy, it also...

... be described as intervention” (p. 146). “The most ominous aspect of the failure to establish an international court has been United States opposition to such an institution” (p. 310). “Although more blatant , her [U.S.] intervention in Santo Domingo is comparable to the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala...

... that Handy is harsh toward the U.S.-supported overthrow of Arbenz in 1954 and critical of all Guatemalan governments since then. He provides considerable evidence to support his condemnation, but his history is especially valuable for its emphasis on peoples’ institutions in post-1954 Guatemala: labor...

... 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Against the backdrop of significant scholarship on the relations between the United States and Guatemala in the years leading up to the 1954 coup against Jacobo Arbenz, it might appear that yet another book would have little to offer scholars of modern Latin...

.... The story of the CIA-sponsored ouster of President Jacobo Arbenz is well chronicled, but little has been written about the aftermath on the grassroots level. Silence on the Mountain takes such an approach, focusing on the coffee-producing west. Wilkinson first journeyed to Guatemala in the mid-1990s...

.... He served for a time as secretary general of the Frente Popular Libertador and ultimately held the post of Foreign Minister under Jacobo Arbenz. Galich’s earlier works, Del pánico al ataque (Guatemala, 1949) and Por qué lucha Guatemala: Arévalo y Arbenz: dos hombres contra un imperio (Buenos...

.... Perhaps the most valuable section is that which discusses the efforts of Arévalo and Arbenz to reach the Indian masses through literacy and rural education campaigns. One can only wish that in this revised edition, González Orellana had summarized developments since 1954 and ascertained the fate of those...

... in the late 1950s and early 1960s after the 1954 army coup that ousted reformist Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. She then devotes a chapter to the rise and demise of the Young Catholic Workers’ Movement from 1947 through the 1960s and how its members interpreted the precepts of the Belgian priest Joseph Cardijn...

... president Jacobo Arbenz, who had redistributed the company's unused land to workers and peasants. Next door, in Honduras, UFCO also found itself on the defensive, albeit with a remarkably different outcome. There, workers initiated a strike that quickly spread throughout the company's estates...

... Fruit Company; Spruille Braden as the diplomatic Caudillo of Business operating like a Minister of Colonies out of Washington; Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano of Guatemala (he signed the El Salvador peace truce after Arbenz was ousted), who sides with the others hoping to end secularization...

.... Samuel Shapiro is not an expert on the Bolivian Revolution. James Reston’s short newspaper article contributes but little to our understanding of American reaction to Jacobo Arbenz’ regime in Guatemala. None of the selections in the chapter on Cuba was written by a genuine authority on Cuban history...

... of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. Here he could have made something of a case for his thesis with objective evidence, but instead he relies solely on an account of Guillermo Toriello and (for an appearance of fairness) carefully selected quotations from Hubert Herring’s textbook, omitting any details which might...

... to regard the book as a serious contribution to the study of the policy of the United States. A few examples may suffice to justify this statement. “In addition, Arbenz openly cavorted with the Soviet Union and its satellites” (p. 136). When President Johnson appointed Assistant Secretary of State Thomas...