The absurdity of Guatemala? Everyday?
Later, galeano, a great left-wing writer in Latin America, wrote in his book "The Cut Blood Vessels in Latin America". In Guatemala, violence is always as natural as sweating. In the river or on the roadside, a body appears every five hours on average. The face is unrecognizable because of torture, and the victim will never be known. The more subtle slaughter, that is, the death caused by poverty every day, has been going on and the degree is more serious. ?
Such words can be described as blood and tears. However, this small Latin American country has long been out of sight. Most people don't know where this country is on the map, and no one knows or regrets its pain.
The evils committed by American imperialism seem to have disappeared from people's sight together with this weak country.
But there will always be people who remember, and there will always be people who know, such as you who are reading this article now.
195 1 year, elected president Juan? Jose? Arevalo (juan jose? Ar？ Valo) confessed in his resignation speech that United Fruit Company of the United States sponsored 32 rebellions, but none of them succeeded!
He was the first democratically elected president of Guatemala after the 1944 revolution, and won 85% of the votes. The government he led was named? Guatemala's first revolutionary government? . During his reign, he publicly boasted that he was a? Spiritual socialist? Naturally, it won the hearts of the people and implemented a series of policies conducive to people's livelihood and employment.
In fact, as early as 1947, arevalo suffered a bizarre and serious car accident. Many people thought there was nothing they could do when they saw him seriously injured and dying. But he miraculously came back to life and continued to lead Guatemala to the road of real independence.
However, just three years later, Guatemala's decade? Spring? After that, I suddenly crossed the summer and autumn and jumped into the cold winter.
The reason is also very simple. 1took over as president of Guatemala in June, 952, that is, former defense minister Jacob? Jacob Albens Guzm? A radical land reform bill was passed.
Abens was handsome and made great achievements in the revolutionary war. His land reform bill itself won the hearts of the people. Before this land reform bill, Guatemala was always called? Bananas and China? United Fruit Company (UFCO) occupies more than 50% of the arable land in China, but only 2.6%(8% and 65,438+05%) of it is used to grow bananas and export them to the United States.
Minor, the father of United Fruit Company? Keith thus gained a bad reputation:? Green devil? . Backed by the United States, it is one of the real leaders behind Central America to establish multinational monopoly companies, control the actual economic sovereignty of many countries in Central America, and control the lifeline industries of countries such as communications, agriculture and shipping.
John? Dos Pazos, in his book 42 degrees north latitude, criticized nakedly: in Europe and America, people began to eat bananas, so they leveled the forests in Central America, planted bananas, laid railways to transport bananas, and drove cars full of bananas to the north? White fleet? The number of ships is increasing year by year. This is the history of the American Empire in the Caribbean, the Panama Canal, Nicaragua's canal construction, the Marine Corps, armored ships and bayonets. ?
Wen Wen, an American historian, swallowed and said sweetly. The Guatemalan people seem to think that their country has been ruthlessly exploited by foreign interest groups and made huge profits without making any contribution to the country's well-being. ?
Abens and his wife
Imagine that the fate of the whole country is controlled by a company, and the future of the nation is kidnapped by a ridiculous banana used to promote digestion. How can a seven-foot man not be sad or angry?
It is under such a national crisis that Abens introduced such a policy, and the official name of the bill is Act 900. The land of United Fruit Company of the United States was expropriated (accounting for 40% of its total), and the state-owned and wasteland were distributed to farmers. Its original intention is to use state capitalism to establish a state-led capitalist economy and gain independent status.
At that time, 500,000 people, accounting for one sixth of the country, benefited, which significantly improved the living standards of a considerable number of people and won strong support from the people.
However, this left-wing bill has greatly stimulated the nerves of Americans, even though Abens himself only wants to take a moderate capitalist road. At that time, several years had passed since the Iron Curtain speech, and Americans and Chinese people's Volunteer Army were fighting fiercely on the Korean Peninsula. Under the ideological shadow of the Cold War, the whole capitalist camp is like a powder keg, which just explodes.
How to change a policy from a national fan to a national spit? The answer is actually simple: just advertise it as evil.
As a result, United Fruit Company, the American government and the media invested millions of dollars in overwhelming publicity, crazy clamor and publicity? The iron curtain slowly falls in Guatemala? . But they are facing an almost monolithic and passionate nation. But under the temptation of huge interests, national scum and speculators (such as Wang Jingwei and others) will also stand on the stage of history and firmly stand on the opposite side of the people.
June afternoon 1954, Castillo? Armas' 480 troops shelled Guatemala City, puerto barrios and San Jose Port. Nine days later, the rebels still couldn't make progress, and the CIA couldn't wait to send a P-38M lightning fighter to attack the port of San Jose. Since then, the CIA has directly dispatched planes to attack the port one after another, which is too naked!
Castilo. From then on, Armas took the presidency and was also a loyal running dog of imperialism.
1961July 27th, the American ambassador to Honduras publicly disclosed 1954? Liberation? Action. This action was planned by him and several American ambassadors to Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and later revealed that the CIA had already gone deep into it.
1952, President Truman authorized the CIA to instigate a coup in Guatemala, code-named PBFORTUNE.
1953, after the last plan failed, President Eisenhower signed a new coup plan code-named PBSUCCESS, with a total budget of 5-7 million US dollars and more than 0/00 CIA agents.
In this plan, former US Army Admiral Albert? Albert Hani became a field commander, and the rebels received American funding and transported a lot of American equipment. At that time, the United States had stopped selling weapons to the Guatemalan government.
At the same time, the United States Central Intelligence Agency sent a mission including entrepreneurs and diplomats, and successfully overthrew Guatemala's democratically elected government through both soft and hard measures.
Is the world in turmoil? The Times of London and Le Monde of Paris publicly condemned this as modern colonialism, and British Prime Minister Attlee said rudely that it was? Naked aggression! ? Even the West German government denounced it, while West Germany still benefited a lot from the Marshall Plan.
But behind the violence and power, tiny Guatemala can only bite its teeth and swallow its blood. Guatemalan President alberts can only spend the rest of his life in great humiliation.
This talented man has a great national future and is brave, but he has suffered great humiliation. He even asked to take off his clothes at the European airport for inspection (suspected that he had brought prohibited items or stolen things). In his later years, he became an out-and-out alcoholic, while his daughter villanova started promiscuity and taking drugs, and his once beautiful wife began to cheat her husband of his spare money.
His family, like the country he loved, was expelled from the international community all over the world, with no pity or memory.
People miss him and the righteous act made by this warm-blooded man, but time flies, the ending of the story is not so beautiful, and suffering is still happening.
After the 1960s, Guatemala experienced a 40-year civil war. It was not until 1996 that the two sides formally signed a contract to lay down their weapons and jointly build the motherland. The Committee for Historical Clarification initiated by the United Nations also issued complaints around the world that year, claiming that during this 40-year-long civil war, paramilitaries trained and sponsored by the CIA initiated more than 93% human rights violations, including the policy of genocide against the Maya.
1999 February 12 US President Bill Clinton publicly apologized to Guatemala.
1999 February 12, President Clinton publicly apologized to the Guatemalan government and admitted that the United States had supported the dictatorship in Guatemala in history. At the same time, apologize to the Abens family and return the property.
However, as this country is so small, such complaints are limited! How many people know?
Left-wing writer galeano accused in his article: At that time, the world's news organizations did not report a large number of massacres in Guatemala step by step, and journalists who loved to catch headlines did not go there, let alone hear strong condemnation. The world will not pay attention to Guatemala, but this country is enduring a long night like Santa Bacelo! ?
Commentary: Crime and violence are rife in Guatemala.
My roommate's village was razed to the ground, and under the dictatorship of the military government, the remaining Mayans were also subjected to large-scale organized genocide. In this small land, you can find any form of murder, as well as the display and broken appearance of bodies. Tragedy keeps happening, but it hardly happens? Iron shoulders and morality, skillful writing? Have wall street media people ever moved even a little bit of compassion?
The animal nature of human beings has been dumped in this forgotten land, and the discerning person will understand the culprit.
Today, Guatemala is still? Dangerous place? With a population of170,000, which is only one-third of Beijing's small country, it has the third female murder rate in the world (9. 1 murder cases against women out of a population of 654.38+10,000), as well as the high drug abuse rate and overall crime rate.
Suffering in blowing in the wind is only a few lines in history. Later generations either shed a few tears or beat their chests and feet, all to no avail, leaving only the cruel truth that backwardness will be beaten and weak countries have no diplomacy.