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- Director of the CIAAllen Dulles
- Of course, of course... Yes, you will make sure the US has presence in Guatemala...
- So much land here in Guatemala! I, helped by the US government, will take all of it and use my influence to keep Guatemala capitalist during this Cold War. No Soviets here!
- United Fruit Company
- You betcha! You will have the full support from the US government.
- Secretary of StateJohn Foster Dulles
- Psst! Redistribute land!
- I am Jacobo Arbenz! Thank you for choosing me as Guatemala's president!
- For reasons I shall not disclose, cough couch UFCO has too much land and the Soviets are influencing me cough cough I am going to redistribute the land of Guatemala!
- I have so much land! Who cares if I'm not leaving enough for the working class...
- 30 Years Later
- Socialism in Guatemala?? This cannot be! President Arbenz has got to be stopped! Time for operation PBSUCCESS.
- Mr. President, we have received reports of socialist land redistribution in Guatemala...
- ARBENZ MUST RESIGN OR THE PALACE WILL FALL
- GUATEMALA NATIONAL PALACE
- US AmbassadorJohn Peurifoy
- So be it...
- Arbenz, if you don't remove every single communist from this country, the US isn't gonna be happy...
- I WON'T resign!
- __________
- The rebels from Honduras are overthrowing Arbenz as we speak, Mr. President.
- Good, good...
- OUT WITH ARBENZ!!
- Maybe I shouldn't have let competition with the Soviet Union influence my actions in Guatemala so much...
- Come on, Mr. Eisenhower. Don't be sad. There's no way you could've known that your coup on Arbenz would lead to a 30-year civil war in Guatemala resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
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