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Article: GUATEMALA STILL SUFFERING EFFECTS OF US-LED COUP.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- May 22, 2003
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Forty-nine years after the fact, Guatemala is still suffering the effects of the overthrow of its government in a coup engineered by the US. This is the view of Piero Gleijeses, historian and author of an important book on the period, Shattered Hope. Speaking on the occasion of the release, on May 16, of some 12,285 previously classified documents on the overthrow, Gleijeses said, "The United States intervened in Guatemala without any emotion, with neither the intention of saving nor damaging the Guatemalans. It was to guarantee their interests, just as the Soviet Union did two years later in Hungary. The only difference is that today Hungary is free and Guatemala is ...