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  1. July 27, 1954 - The democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, after receiving 65% of the vote, was overthrown by CIA-paid and -trained mercenaries. There followed a series of military dictatorships that waged a genocidal war against the indigenous Mayan Indians and against political opponents into the '90s. Nearly 200,000 citizens died over the nearly four decades of civil war.

    “They have used the pretext of anti-communism. The truth is very different. The truth is to be found in the financial interests of the fruit company [United Fruit, which controlled more land than any other individual or group in the country. It also owned the railway, the electric utilities, telegraph, and the country's only port at Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic coast.] and the other U.S. monopolies which have invested great amounts of money in Latin America and fear that the example of Guatemala would be followed by other Latin countries . . . I took over the presidency with great faith in the democratic system, in liberty and the possibility of achieving economic independence for Guatemala.”

    #Guatemala #CIA #Coupdétat #USImperialism

  2. #elonmusk 's #AI #blitzkrieg on #Washington a #AI based #Coupdetat replacing government with #AI ?

    " replace the existing civil service, Musk’s allies are looking to technology. #DOGE associates have been feeding vast troves of government records and databases into artificial intelligence tools, looking for unwanted federal programs and trying to
    determine which human work can be replaced by AI, machine-learning tools or even robots."

    and WHO decides what is a unwanted federal program? #elonmusk ?

    just4info: have tested #GROK and it was way behind #ChatGPT so EXPECT errors (and not marginal ones) to happen washingtonpost.com/business/20