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• History (Guatemala)

  1944-1989, Making Guatemala a killing field: The coup and US intervention in Guatemala

  April 2002, by CHOMSKY Noam

  Noam Chomsky on the US intervention and coup following the 1944 revolution which overthrew Guatemala’s brutal dictator.
  There was one place in Central America that did get some US media coverage before the Sandinista revolution and the contra war in Nicaragua, and that was Guatemala. In 1944, (…)

• History (Guatemala)

  United States and Central America: Reagan Administrations links with Guatemala’s Terrorist Government

  1995, by NAIRN Allan

  An article detailing the peak in US-Guatemalan collaboration in state terror.
  Local businessmen and government officials involved with Guatemala’s notorious death squads say they have struck a deal with Ronald Reagan which provides for restoration of U.S. weapon sales and training facilities (…)