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  1. "Banana republic" coups was always an American invention. In 1954, under the guise of fighting "communism" the US covertly deposed democratically elected Guatemalan president Árbenz and replaced him with a dictator. The coup was in support of United Fruit Company, today Chiquita.
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      Please do read more about the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat: "The CIA armed, funded, and trained a force of 480 men led by Carlos Castillo Armas. The coup was preceded by U.S. efforts to criticize and isolate Guatemala internationally." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27état
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        And then read about the United Fruit Company and how Chiquita's banana industry brought environmental destruction, slave-like exploitation of workers, massacres and corrupt military governments to Latin America. link.medium.com/F5mYovkQ9cb
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          Before the Guatemalan coup, their first democratically elected leader introduced minimum wage and near-universal suffrage, and turned Guatemala into a democracy. Árbenz then instituted land reforms which granted property to landless peasants. This is what the US did not tolerate.
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