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Migration Waves
US Interventions and the Central American People’s Journey
CONFLICTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
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Guatemala’s Civil War, 1960–1996
On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. This led to a multi-decade civil war and genocide resulting in the death and disappearance of up to 200,000 people.
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