The CIA Overthrows the Guatemalan Government

The CIA Overthrows the Guatemalan Government

By Airship | Noiser | Wondery

June 27, 1954. Democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán is deposed in a CIA-backed coup, bringing an end to a brief era of democracy and social progress and ushering in decades of violence and oppression. This episode originally aired in 2023.


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