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S2 Bonus 1 - "Red-Handed Sleight of Hand"

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John Foster Dullas and the United Fruit Company

19 54 was a significant year in anti colonial struggle, not just from the perspective of john foster dullas. The battle of dienbien fu in vitnam had led to the creation of a communist government in the country's north. In cuba, according to tad scholtzq, the c a intervention in guatemala had an enormous impact on fidel castro. Fidel was then imprisoned for his attack on the moncada barracks and he realized that the us would dislodge any latin american government that sought to choose its own fate. And chegovara had actually been in Guatemala at the time of the counter revolution.

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