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Ten Interventions That Bent a Hemisphere

Across the 20th century, U.S. covert and overt actions in Latin America traded short-term "stability" for long-term democratic fragility. From Guatemala's 1954 coup to Plan Colombia, the pattern is visible in declassified files: regime change at the top, mass graves at the bottom.

Aug 9, 202510 min

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Breaking the Monopolies: Árbenz, the Atlantic Corridor, and the Coup That Rewrote Guatemala

Jacobo Árbenz did not try to build utopia. He tried to build a country that could set its own prices. His program—land reform backed by logistics—attacked the chokepoints that kept Guatemala poor: a foreign‑owned port, a foreign‑owned railway, and idle estates that treated peasants as labor.

Jun 6, 202518 min