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To: ozone1
Next we'll be reading about how the good "Whinnem" has problems with the uncouth yahoo population.

Any chance this is a crude knock-off of Gulliver's Travels?
2 posted on 04/05/2003 5:09:46 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles - -)
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To: GladesGuru
"Everything has a bias," Whinnem said

Understatemnt of the article.
3 posted on 04/05/2003 5:12:21 AM PST by ozone1 (Partnership for a Liberal-Free Maine)
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To: GladesGuru
1949 - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman killed his rival Gen. Francisco Javier Arana and sought to become the successor of President Juan Jose Arevalo who could not succeed himself in office according to the constitution of Guatemala.
1950 - election of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman as President, began land reform and nationalized the 500,000 acres owned by the United Fruit Company of Boston. John Foster Dulles a UF lawyer would become Secretary of State in 1953, and his brother Allen Dulles would become director of the CIA.

1952 - Truman approved CIA Op. PBFORTUNE effort to overthrow Arbenz.

1953 - Arbenz accepted support of communists in Guatemala, supported labor strikes in Honduras, received 2000 tons Czech arms shipment on the Swedish freighter the Alfhem.

1953/8 - Ike authorized CIA Op. PBSUCCESS to overthrow Arbenz, just two months after he authorized the CIA overthrow of Mossadeg in Iran. At least 68 Guatemalan supporters of Arbenz would be assassinated in 1954 by the CIA.

1954/3 - Guatemala was the only nation voting against Dulles anti-communist resolution at the Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas (passed 17-1).

1954/6 - Arbenz proclaimed a dictatorship and began murder of many opponents.

1954/6/16 - Col. Carlos Enrique Castill Armas invaded from Honduras and in 2 weeks ousted Arbenz who fled to Czech. June 27.

1954/12 - By the end of the year, Armas was assassinated. A reign of terror by the Guatemalan military began, 9000 supporters of Arbenz were imprisoned, and many others fled the country, including a young Argentine doctor, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who went to Mexico and there met Fidel Castro.

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/guatemala.html

Wonderfful Mr Arbenz was Che Guvara's role model.
6 posted on 04/05/2003 5:26:23 AM PST by ozone1 (Partnership for a Liberal-Free Maine)
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