The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention (Texas Pan American Series) | 
| Author: Richard H. Immerman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 291
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0292710836
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.7307281
EAN: 9780292710832
ASIN: 0292710836
Publication Date: 1983
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Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today.
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 Factual, balanced account July 28, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good, factual balanced account which brings to bear all the relevant facts and leaves out any ideological bias. It's also very well written and makes for an easy read.
The harsh reality of American Policy of Intervention May 26, 1998
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
The CIA in Guatemala offers the reader a compeling and shocking truth regarding the involevement of the American government in third-world country. Immerman relates in detail how the CIA and United Fruit magnates paint the guatemalan flag red and declare the country communist because they misinterpreted Agrarian Reform as a direct threat to "National Security." Boldly told, the reader finds himself amist a sea of revelations and a little confusion as the story unfolds, but it is only natural for a book of this nature. Immeran has done a wonderful job explaining foreign and political intervention about the american titan otherwise know as the "Gobierno Gringo." A marvelous account of past events are exposed after years of being witheld by the CIA as classified documents. I invoke anybody with an interest in politics, governmet intervention or just to inderstand how foreign interests dictate a small nation by placing puppet presidents to do their bidding to read this book.
 a fact-filled disappointment January 27, 1998
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is a useful book. It is very well researched, extraordinarily documented and tells you essentially anything you need to know about the CIA's plot to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala. Unfortunately, the writing is so turgid and dull it's difficult not to nod off in the middle of a particularly gritty section of history. I applaud Immerman's effort and the completeness of his overall work, but he really should have taken on a jounrnalist to help him get through the rough spots and make the book actually readable.
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