This video documents the CIA overthrow of the Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954. Encouraged by their success in Iran where they installed the Shah in a coup d'état, the CIA turned their sites on Guatemala where they believed communists were poised to take over the country from Arbenz who was a socialist and an irritant to United Fruit Company. United Fruit was represented by CIA Director Allen Dulles' brother, John Foster Dulles. The video also demonstrates how the US government is influenced by corporate interests intimately connected to it. Presidente Fidel Castro speaks about Guatamala's sad experience with political reform, to be repeated in other Latin American dictatorships during the Cold War and culminating in the illegal military invasions of Grenada (1983) and Panama (1989) under pretexts of defending democracy:
Two decades later, it was Chile's turn to experience the corporatist power of an American company (ITT) controlling official foreign policy (Presidente Castro plays basketball during his Chilean visit):
In 2013 a historic trial took place in Argentina that exposed "Operation Condor", a systematic effort by seven Latin American dictatorships advised and trained by the CIA and the US Army to hunt down Latin American leftsist labeled 'terrorists'. Argentinian judicial authorities requested the testimony of former United States National Security Advisor Henry Kissenger, known to be a key player in the suppression of leftists movements in Latin America, but the request was denied by the Current Occupant. The United States would find empire building much more difficult in the Middle East.