Re: Culmore
Posted by:
incas rule
()
Date: March 08, 2009 10:15AM
Bull Conner Wrote:
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> All Central American countries went through bloody
> CIA backed civil wars against the threat of
> communism, where U.S. trained murderous dictators
> were put into power. El Salvadorians are just the
> highest profile group in the states because of
> MS13.
>
> Back this assertion up with some evidence asshat.
Can you say United Fruit Company, Allen and John Foster Dulles, (and later) School of Americas (the Fort Benning, Georgia school that produced Pinochet, Manuel Noriega and many others), Iran-Contra affair, and Oliver North. You, sir, are the asshat!
United Fruit Company and the CIA staged a fake 'communist' invasion of Gautemala via 'Honduras', so that the elected and anti UFC/US President could be deposed. Where do you think the term 'banana republic' comes from? Re-learn your history, fool!
In case you still have doubts:
In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U.S.- backed forces lead by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas[4] who invaded from Honduras. Assigned by the Eisenhower administration, this Arbenz government’s military opposition was armed, trained and organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency[5] (see Operation PBSUCCESS). The directors of United Fruit Company (UFCO) had lobbied to convince the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that Colonel Arbenz intended to align Guatemala with the Soviet Bloc. Besides the disputed issue of Arbenz's allegiance to Communism, UFCO was being threatened by the Arbenz government’s agrarian reform legislation and new Labor Code.[6] UFCO was the largest Guatemalan landowner and employer, and the Arbenz government’s land reform included the expropriation of 40% of UFCO land.[7] U.S. officials had little proof to back their claims of a growing communist threat in Guatemala[8], however the relationship between the Eisenhower administration and UFCO demonstrated the influence of corporate interest on U.S. foreign policy.[9] The American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was an avowed opponent of Communism whose law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell[10] had represented United Fruit. His brother Allen Dulles was the director of the CIA. The brother of the Assistant Secretary of State for InterAmerican Affairs John Moors Cabot had once been president of United Fruit. Ed Whitman who was United Fruit’s principal lobbyist was married to President Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman.[11] Many individuals who directly influenced U.S. policy towards Guatemala in the 1950s also had direct ties to UFCO.[12] The overthrow of Arbenz, however, failed to benefit the Company. Its stock market value declined along with its profit margin. The Eisenhower administration proceeded with antitrust action against the company, which forced it to divest in 1958. In 1972, the company sold off the last of their Guatemalan holdings after over a decade of decline.
BTW, My family knew of people who died in a plane crash in South America because of a shoot out aboard between CIA agents and leftist dissidents.