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UFC : The Chiquita banana company who lobbied for the "1954 Guatemalan coup d'état" - an operation to overthrow the democratically elected Guatemalan government. Why? The elected president policies were a threat to UFC's exploitative labor practices. CIA involved, Guatemalan government overthrown, dictatorial rule, civil war for decades.

The CIA even launched another operation to find the Soviet influence in Guatemala to justify the coup. The operation was a failure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état




And the same kind of practices where done in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Bolivia, Perú, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, to name a few.




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