Fruit of the Doom: The Dismantling of Guatemala

Two Tragedies - Episode 5


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Arbenz is exiled as Guatemala backslides into facsism with the State Departments approval. But the new military government presses too far, igniting a civil war that would tear the country apart for decades to come.
United Fruit faces its own obstacles as the 20th century progresses, finding itself subsumed by the twisted economic logic that rewards financial speculation instead of actually producing anything. Get it? Produce?
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Fruit of the Doom: The Dismantling of GuatemalaBy Ben Gauld

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