Guatemala

1 conflicts · 1954–1954

$33M

Total US Spending

1

Conflicts

—

US Deaths

—

Troops Stationed

200,000

Civilian Deaths

0

Authorized

1

Unauthorized

📖 History of US Involvement in Guatemala

The 1954 CIA coup against Guatemala's democratic government — launched to protect United Fruit Company profits — triggered a 42-year civil war that killed 200,000 people, including acts of genocide against the Mayan population. The Dulles brothers' conflict of interest (both had ties to United Fruit) represents one of the most flagrant cases of corporate interests driving U.S. foreign policy.

US Conflicts Involving This Country

⚔️ Conflicts

Guatemalan Coup

❌Regime change

1954–1954 · $33M · Covert

200,000 civilian deaths

CIA-orchestrated coup against democratically elected President Árbenz to protect United Fruit Company interests. Led to 36-year civil war and genocide.

🗣️ What They Said

“The United States could not permit a 'deck stacked' so as to leave the U.S. 'no alternative but to accept a Communist-dominated Guatemala.'”

— CIA internal assessment justifying the coup, despite no evidence Árbenz was communist (Guatemala Coup)