How the CIA and Corporate America used propaganda in 1954 to overthrow a democratic nation

the ideology and purpose of the propaganda campaign In the case of the Guatemalan counterrevolution of 1954, the ideology was procapitalist, anti-communist, and pro-American. The purpose of the U. S. government s propaganda campaign was to remove... More

the ideology and purpose of the propaganda campaign In the case of the Guatemalan counterrevolution of 1954, the ideology was procapitalist, anti-communist, and pro-American. The purpose of the U. S. government s propaganda campaign was to remove Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz from power using the least amount of direct intervention possible and replace him with a leader sympathetic to U. S. economic and political interests and to keep communism out of the Western Hemisphere. The purpose of the United Fruit Company s propaganda campaign was to influence the American general public and lobby the U. S. government to act in its defense against the expropriation of land which occurred under President Arbenz s agrarian land reform bill, Decree 900. the context in which the propaganda occurs Around the mid-twentieth century, Guatemala was a nation dependent on the exportation of coffee and bananas, a country with a wealthy minority, a poor majority, a government which lacked the re Less