#guatemalan — Public Fediverse posts
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Met some #Guatemalan activists at UVSS/UVIC Campus Community Garden Spring Market today. They have an upcoming #fundraiser #CommunityEvent happening in April.
#GlobalSouth #HumanitarianAid #OpenMic #ClothingSwap #CommunityMeal #Guatemala #Solidarity #Grassroots #BCCASA #BritishColumbia #CanadiansForGuatemala #SouthAmerica #POC #FairTradeCoffee
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Met some #Guatemalan activists at UVSS/UVIC Campus Community Garden Spring Market today. They have an upcoming #fundraiser #CommunityEvent happening in April.
#GlobalSouth #HumanitarianAid #OpenMic #ClothingSwap #CommunityMeal #Guatemala #Solidarity #Grassroots #BCCASA #BritishColumbia #CanadiansForGuatemala #SouthAmerica #POC #FairTradeCoffee
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Inside #OperationPBSuccess, When The #CIA And A #BananaCompany Destroyed #Guatemalan #Democracy
By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated November 9, 2023"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s #corruption.
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as #ChiquitaBrands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic #revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the #WhiteHouse — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people.
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess#UnitedFruitCompany #IndigenousPeople #Genocide
#Guatemala #USBackedCoups
#CIA #History #RedScare #CorporateColonialism #ChiquitaBananas #Chiquita -
Inside #OperationPBSuccess, When The #CIA And A #BananaCompany Destroyed #Guatemalan #Democracy
By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated November 9, 2023"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s #corruption.
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as #ChiquitaBrands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic #revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the #WhiteHouse — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people.
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess#UnitedFruitCompany #IndigenousPeople #Genocide
#Guatemala #USBackedCoups
#CIA #History #RedScare #CorporateColonialism #ChiquitaBananas #Chiquita -
Inside #OperationPBSuccess, When The #CIA And A #BananaCompany Destroyed #Guatemalan #Democracy
By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated November 9, 2023"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s #corruption.
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as #ChiquitaBrands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic #revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the #WhiteHouse — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people.
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess#UnitedFruitCompany #IndigenousPeople #Genocide
#Guatemala #USBackedCoups
#CIA #History #RedScare #CorporateColonialism #ChiquitaBananas #Chiquita -
Inside #OperationPBSuccess, When The #CIA And A #BananaCompany Destroyed #Guatemalan #Democracy
By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated November 9, 2023"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s #corruption.
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as #ChiquitaBrands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic #revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the #WhiteHouse — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people.
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess#UnitedFruitCompany #IndigenousPeople #Genocide
#Guatemala #USBackedCoups
#CIA #History #RedScare #CorporateColonialism #ChiquitaBananas #Chiquita -
Inside #OperationPBSuccess, When The #CIA And A #BananaCompany Destroyed #Guatemalan #Democracy
By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published April 5, 2021
Updated November 9, 2023"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s #corruption.
"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as #ChiquitaBrands International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt #autocracy, it received little pushback over decades of economic #exploitation.
"But in the 1940s, a democratic #revolution and calls for #justice threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the #WhiteHouse — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous #Communist administration in the process.
"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long #CivilWar and genocide of the #Indigenous #Mayan people.
Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess#UnitedFruitCompany #IndigenousPeople #Genocide
#Guatemala #USBackedCoups
#CIA #History #RedScare #CorporateColonialism #ChiquitaBananas #Chiquita -
More than 500 years ago in the midwestern #Guatemalan highlands, #Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many #archeologists previously thought.
#Anthropology #Archeology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/ant01062301.html -
More than 500 years ago in the midwestern #Guatemalan highlands, #Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many #archeologists previously thought.
#Anthropology #Archeology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/01/ant01062301.html