Guatemalan Coup Capitalists by Nousha Afaghi https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp en-us 2022-05-17 12:47:38 UTC 2022-05-30 02:37:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Jose Manuel Fortuny zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187554968 2022-05-17 12:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187554968 Arbenz's Social Circle (Communist Friends) zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187555433 2022-05-17 12:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187555433 zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187556588 Jacobo’s social circle included many communists who influenced his decisions (Ex. José Manuel Fortuny, communist leader of Latin America, one of the main advisors for the Guatemalan government)
 
]]> 2022-05-17 12:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187556588 zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187559477 "During Guzman’s presidency, Fortuny played a key role in the administration of President Jacobo Arbenz (1951–1954) as the president's friend, personal adviser, and member of the so-called "kitchen cabinet," writing many of his speeches."

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fortuny-jose-manuel-1916
]]> 2022-05-17 12:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187559477 Maria Cristina Villanova zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187561163 2022-05-17 12:57:47 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187561163 Social Proximity Effect afaghin26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187563052 2022-05-17 12:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187563052 zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187563098 “Her [Maria, his wife] influence on Arbenz's political consciousness was great.” During their marriage, she was able to convert Guzman to becoming a socialist, proving she has a monumental influence on him and his views. She was an open socialist and surrounded herself with communists. For example, she had a strong friendship with Virginia Bravo, who was a Chilean communist leader. And she was also a great friend of Salvadoran Communist exile Matilde Elena Lopez. These three women organized regular political discussions at the Arbenz family home.
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/jacobo-arbenz-guzman
https://www2.umbc.edu/che/historylabs/lessondisplay.php?lesson=101 ]]> 2022-05-17 12:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187563098 zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187566288 Maria Cristina Villanova converted Guzman to socialism after they got married.

]]> 2022-05-17 13:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187566288 stevensl261 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569256 Roberto Fanjul, Minister of Economy and a close friend of Arbenz, told the CIA that “he was certain that the President’s sources of information were always “filtered through a Communist screen””.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54Guat/d27]]> 2022-05-17 13:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569256 afaghin26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569368
  • Arbenz believed that since Guatemala had low economic development, it needed a lot of rehabilitation to prepare to enforce communism.  Arbenz had a land reform plan to help modernize Guatemala and set certain conditions to make it a Marxist state. The land reform did not follow through and served the opposite. This involved taking away large tracts from the United Fruit Company, and gave them to peasants that did not own land and made up a big part of the population.
    • https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/foreign-affairs 
    https://www.wbur.org/npr/234752747/meet-the-brothers-who-shaped-u-s-policy-inside-and-out
    ]]>     2022-05-17 13:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569368     https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569820 The Agarian reform bill was to confiscate land from large land owning companies and redistribute it to farmers and peasants of Guatemala.

    The draft of Arbenz’s proposal was similar to the draft made by the leader of Central General Trabajadores de Guatemala.

    Page 8 paragraph 1
     ]]>     2022-05-17 13:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187569820     zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187572467 Who you spend your time with impacts the way you think and behave.]]> 2022-05-17 13:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187572467 Agarian Reform Bill send26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187573233 2022-05-17 13:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187573233 Roberto Fanjul zhanga263 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187580247 2022-05-17 13:09:37 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187580247 Dinner conversation with Guzman stevensl261 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187581690 On December 17, 1953, President Guzman and Maria Arbenz entertained John E. Peurifoy and his wife for a dinner. Their conversations lasted for 6 hours, containing plenty of direct quotes from Guzman that prove communist influence.
    The following are quotes from John Peurifoy to the US in a telegram:

    “President then answered that there were some Communists in his Government and that [they] had certain amount of influence, but they were “local.” He described his friendship with Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Communist secretary general of country’s only national labor federation, and Jose Manuel Fortuny, head of Guatemala Communist Party… They went to Moscow (Fortuny is on trip there now) merely to study Marxism, not necessarily to get instructions.”

    “Also asked about Guatemalan Congressional memorial observances for Stalin’s death and Mrs. Arbenz explanation was Guatemalan people regarded Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin as saviors of world.”

    “President took up agrarian reform, saying there had been much opposition from American circles and others in the country. I told him we had worked and were working with countries who had introduced land reform, citing my experience in Greece4 and present situation in Bolivia. I said the difference seemed to lie in the administration, not in principle of assisting poor people to obtain land. I pointed out the explanation was perhaps in fact that National Agrarian Department was dominated by Communists.”
    https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v04/d427]]>     2022-05-17 13:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187581690     US Relations stevensl261 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187677032 2022-05-17 14:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187677032 What is The United Fruit Company? matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187732247 The United Fruit company sells and distributes produce, processes and distributes meat, fats, oils, and drinks. It's current name is Chiquita Brands International. Originally, it capitalized more than $11 million. After a lot of absorbing more than 20 rival Companies, it expanded to having around $215 million by 1930.

    ]]>     2022-05-17 14:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187732247     The United Fruit Company matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187733679 2022-05-17 14:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2187733679 matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189507509 Guatemala City, March 10- President Clinton showed regret for the US’s role in the 36 year civil war. He said that Washington “was wrong” to support the Guatemalan security forces that resulted in killing thousands of civilians. ]]> 2022-05-18 13:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189507509 President Clinton Apologizing- expressing regret matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189511995 2022-05-18 13:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189511995 matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189514949  President Clinton quotes, ''For the United States,'' Mr. Clinton said, ''it is important that I state clearly that support for military forces and intelligence units which engaged in violence and widespread repression was wrong, and the United States must not repeat that mistake.'']]> 2022-05-18 13:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189514949 matrose26 https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189520783 During the 1960s, the United States was intimately involved in equipping and training Guatemalan security forces that murdered thousands of civilians in the nation's civil war, according to newly declassified U.S. intelligence documents.]]> 2022-05-18 13:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/afaghin26/adgtntl1d169buvp/wish/2189520783