
Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin
The Dig
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The Cuban Revolution and Guatemala's Revolution
The cuban revolution's 19 59 victory radically changed latin america and us. Foreign policy toward it. Reaction to it were shaped by the guatamalancu you write qu in planning to overthrow castro. The c i a had believed its own hype, that its disinformation campaign against our bends not only disoriented, confused and scared guatam once, but also created an organized internal opposition to arbens. Instigated cunguatemala also went on to shape castros approach to governing leading him to adopt the very sort of repressive methods that the us would then use as a pretext to attack cuba. This juxtaposition wat what do we learn about the trajectory
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