DoomsdaysCW<p>Inside <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OperationPBSuccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperationPBSuccess</span></a>, When The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> And A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BananaCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BananaCompany</span></a> Destroyed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guatemalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guatemalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> </p><p>By Kaleena Fraga | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis<br>Published April 5, 2021<br>Updated November 9, 2023</p><p>"In 1954, Operation PBSuccess dismantled Guatemala’s newfound democracy — so that an American fruit company could continue to profit off the old government’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>.</p><p>"Throughout the early 20th century, an American multinational corporation called the United Fruit Company — now known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChiquitaBrands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChiquitaBrands</span></a> International — controlled vast swaths of Guatemalan land and production. Aided by a corrupt <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a>, it received little pushback over decades of economic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploitation</span></a>.</p><p>"But in the 1940s, a democratic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> and calls for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> threatened to undermine United Fruit’s position. So the company leveraged its powerful connections inside the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> — painting the new Guatemalan government as a dangerous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a> administration in the process.</p><p>"As a result, the CIA launched Operation PBSuccess: a sweeping coup that destroyed the country’s democracy, installed a dictator, and sparked a decades-long <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> and genocide of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mayan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mayan</span></a> people.</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-pbsuccess" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthatsinteresting.com/operat</span><span class="invisible">ion-pbsuccess</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedFruitCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedFruitCompany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guatemala</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USBackedCoups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USBackedCoups</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChiquitaBananas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChiquitaBananas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chiquita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chiquita</span></a></p>