Junio 17th, 1954
Washington
- DWIGHT EISENHOWER:
- President of the
United States of America. He overthrowed Mohammed
Mossadegh's government, in Iran, because he had
nationalized oil industry. He's ordered the
overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz government too, in
Guatemala.
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- SAM ZEMURRAY:
- Main stockholder of
the United Fruit. Any of his concerns become
automatically USA government speeches and rifles,
gunmachines, and CIA planes.
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- JOHN FOSTER DULLES:
- Secretary of State
of the United States of America. He was a Unitef
Fruit lawyer.
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- ALLEN DULLES:
- CIA Chairman. John
Foster Dulles' brother. As he, he has worked as
lawyer defending the United Fruit. They plan
together Guatemala Operation.
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- JOHN MOORS CABOT:
- Secretary of State
for Interamericas Affairs . Thomas Cabot's
brother, who was president of the United Fruit.
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- BEDELL SMITH:
- Subsecretary of
State. He's a kind of link in the Guatemala
Operation. Futur member of the United Fruit
directory.
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- HENRY CABOT LODGE:
- Senator. USA
representative in UN. United Fruit stockholder.
Several times he has received money from this
firm by his Senate speeches.
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- ANNE WHITMAN:
- Personal secretary
of president Eisenhower. She's married with
United Fruit Public Relations chief.
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- SPRUILLE BRADEN:
- He was ambassador
of the United States in several Latin American
countries. He's payed a United Fruit wage since
1948. He exhorts Eisenhower, with mas-media
echoe, to delete by hardline the comunism
strenght in Guatemala.
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- ROBERT HILL:
- Ambassador of the
United States in Costa Rica. He joins the
Guatemala Operation. Futur member of the United
Fruit directory.
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- JOHN PEURIFOY:
- Ambassador of the
United States in Guatemala. He's called
"Greece's butcher" due to his last
diplomatic measures at Athenso. H doesn'e speak
not even a spanish word. He was politically
formed in the Senate, in Washington, where he
worked as an elevator operator.
Boston
The Lie Machine, piece by
piece.
- THE MOTOR:
- Hangman becomes
victim and victim becomes hangman. Those who plan
the invasion of Guatemala from Honduras, ascribe
Guatemala intentions of invade Honduras and all
Central America y toda América Central.
Kremlin's tentacles are at sight, reports John
Moors Cabot from the White House. Ambassador
Peurifoy notifies in Guatemala: We shouldn´t let
the stablishment of a soviet republic from Texas
to the Panama Channel. The scandal is a weapon
cargo shipped in Czechoslovakia. The United
states have forbidden weapon sales to Guatemala.
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- GEAR 1:
- Public opinnion all
over the world is bombed with notices and
articles, denouncements, pamphlets, photographs,
films, and comics about the comunist atrocities
in Guatemala. This pedagogic material, that never
says its origin, comes from the United Fruit
offices in Boston or the Washington's governemnt
offices.
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- GEAR 2:
- Guatemala's
archbishop, Mariano Rossell Arellano, exhorts
peoplpe to revolt against the communism, enemy of
God and the Motherland. Thirty CIA's planes
spread their pastoral all over the nation. The
archbishop sends to the capial city the popular
icon of the "Cristo de Esquipulas", who
will be graded as the General Captain of the
Freedom Crusade.
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- GEAR 3:
- At the Panamerican
Conference, John Foster Dulles hits the table
with his fist and pulls out the OEA's (OAS:
Organization of American States) benediction in
order to project the invasion. At UN, Henry Cabot
Lodge blocks the help petitions of Jacobo
Árbenz. USA's diplomacy is mobilized all over
the world. England and France's complicity is
reached by a USA's silence compromise about the
delicate suez Channel, Chipre and Indonesia
affairs .
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- GEAR 4:
- Nicaragua,
Honduras, Venezuela and República Dominicana
dictators not only cooperates with training
fields, radio broadcasting systems, and airports
for the Guatemala Operation. They also contribute
to the propaganda campaign. Somoza joins
international press in Managua and shows some
guns that have printed the hammer and sickle
symbols. He says they come from a russian
submarine and that they have been intercepted on
the way to Guatemala.
Guatemala City
Guatemala's Reconquest
Guatemala has no planes nor anti-aircraift battery, so USA's
pilots, on USA's planes, bomb all the country with comfort.
A powerful CIA broadcasting
station, installed on the USA's ambassy roof terrace, spread
condusion and panic all over the country: the Lie Machine
notifies world that that was the rebel radio, The Freedom Voice,
transmiting from the Guatemala's jungle the triumphal march of
Colonel Castillo Armas. Meanwhile, Castillo Armas, set with his
troops in a United Fruit planctation in Honduras, wait for the
Lie Machine orders .
Árbenz's goverment attends,
paralized, its own cave-in. Air bombings arrive to the capital
city and smashes the compustible depots. Government is limited to
bury the dead ones. The mercenary army, God, the Motherland,
Freedom, crosses the border. It doesn't find any resistence. Due
to money or fear, the military chiefs gice up their troops
without shoting a bullet. A 20 aged argentinian medical, Ernesto
Guevara, tries, in vain, to organize popular defence at the
capital: he doesn't how nor with to do it. Unprepared militias,
disarmed, roam by streets. When Árbenz orders, finally, to open
arsenals, officials refuse to obbey. One of these gloomy days and
without greatness, Guevara suffers an asthma and indignation
attack; and one midnight , finally, after two weeks of bombings,
president Árbenz goes slowly downstairs the National Palace
front steps, crosses the street and asks assylum in the Ambassy
of México.
Guatemala City
Newscast
Gautemala's archbishop announces: I admire the sincere and
burning patriotism of president Castillo Armas. In a great jabber
atmosphere, Castillo Armas receives the Pope's ambassador
benediction, monsignor Genaro Verrolino.
President Eisenhower
congratulates at the White House the CIA's responsibles. He tells
them: Thank you for the elimination of a soviet headbeach.
CIA's chief, Allen Dulles,
entrusts a journalist of «Time» magazine the redaction of a new
Constitution for Guatemala.
«Time» magazine publishes a
poem of USA ambassador's wife. The poem says that Mr. and Mrs.
Peurifoy are "optimistic" because Guatemala is no more
"comunistic".
During the first meeting with
the ambassador after the victory, president Castillo Armas
expresses his worry about the insufficiency of local prissions,
that they don't dispose of the necessary cells celdas necesarias
to enclose the communists. According to the lists sent from
Washington for the State Department, the Guatemalan communists
add 72,000.
It is celebrated a holiday in
the embassy. Four hundred Guatemalan guests sing to choir the
anthem of the United States of America.
[HABLA
GUILLERMO TORIELLO]
Guillermo Toriello was diplomatic representative of the
revolutionary governments of Guatemala between 1944 and
1954. He occupied various charges in the foreign service
of his country: it was Ambassador in the United States,
Ambassador before the OAS, President of the delegation of
Guatemala before the UN and Chancellor of Guatemala.From these posts and in variou
tribunes, he defended the right to Guatemala to its
autodetermination and fought against the USA intervention
that it peaked with the coup d'état of June 17th, 1954
that it has cost to the country more than 100 dead
thousand.
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