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Crime (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#United_Fruit_Company_lobbying

tl;dr: the United Fruit Company (today known as Chiquita) reaped massive profits from plantations in Latin America. When Guatemala started introducing laws that harmed their profits, the UFC and its pocket congressmen started putting pressure on the country and spreading propaganda, accusing them of being communists. When Eisenhower was elected, he used the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954 (as they did in Iran a year before). The UFC's involvement is known, but to what extent beyond slandering the progressive government, is not clear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Definitely something that someone should name a clothing brand after!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wdym suspected that stuff has to have been declassified by now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

True, I've clarified my comment.