DoomsdaysCWInside #OperationPBSuccess, When The CIA And A #Banana Company Destroyed Guatemalan Democracy
In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled #Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s corruption.
By All That's Interesting | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated June 12, 2023
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the #UnitedFruitCompany — now known as #Chiquita Brands International — controlled vast swaths of #Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the White House — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
As a result, the #CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s #democracy, installed a #dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and #genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people."
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