Introduction

The 19 54 cop in guatemala is an event that i'm always surprised people haven't heard of, because it's even somewhat funny if you aren't a guatemalan whose government was overthrown. So what happened in 19 54 is that guatemala was a tiny central american country that most people in the united states had never heard of. And they hired a publicist who happened to be sigmund freud's nephew, a, to kind of promote the idea in the United States that communism was infiltrating central America. Historians are divided about how successful this radio campaign actually was but we do know that arbens spooked into resigning and taking asylum in