Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story Of The American Coup In Guatemala
by Stephen Kinzer /
1982 / English / PDF
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There is a newer edition of this book.
There is a newer edition of this book.Bitter Fruit
Bitter Fruit recounts in telling detail the CIA operation
to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo
Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic,
a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to
condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The
authors make extensive use of U.S. government publications and
documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other
officials. The Harvard edition includes a powerful new
introduction by historian John Coatsworth, Director of the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; an insightful
prologue by Richard Nuccio, former State Department official who
revealed recent evidence of CIA misconduct in Guatemala to
Congress; and a compelling afterword by coauthor Stephen Kinzer,
now Istanbul bureau chief for the
recounts in telling detail the CIA operation
to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo
Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. The 1982 book has become a classic,
a textbook case study of Cold War meddling that succeeded only to
condemn Guatemala to decades of military dictatorship. The
authors make extensive use of U.S. government publications and
documents, as well as interviews with former CIA and other
officials. The Harvard edition includes a powerful new
introduction by historian John Coatsworth, Director of the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; an insightful
prologue by Richard Nuccio, former State Department official who
revealed recent evidence of CIA misconduct in Guatemala to
Congress; and a compelling afterword by coauthor Stephen Kinzer,
now Istanbul bureau chief for theNew York Times
New York Times,
summarizing developments that led from the 1954 coup to the peace
accords that ended Guatemala's civil strife forty years later.
,
summarizing developments that led from the 1954 coup to the peace
accords that ended Guatemala's civil strife forty years later.
