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.
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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.

Most recent revision: May 19, 2002