The Battle For Guatemala: Rebels, Death Squads, And U.s. Power

by Susanne Jonas

Book Overview

This book presents a contemporary history of Guatemala's thirty-year civil war, evaluating the central protagonists in the turbulent battle for Guatemala--rebels, death squads, and the United States power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813306140
• ISBN13: 9780813306148
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

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review titled "ideological scholarship" by paulsrb deeply flawed

I have not read this book yet, but after reading the review "ideological scholarship" I plan on it. I have read almost all of the books that reviewer paulsrb uses to support his case that Susanne Jonas has misconstrued the truth, and he misrepresents all of them.Piero Gleijeses gives a compelling argument against Arbenz' involvement in Arana's death, and states on page 84 that Arbenz "would have won even had the elections been copmpletely free." From reading the works of Immerman and Gleijeses, I believe they would agree with Jonas that Guatemala's direction under Arbenz was towards a Nationalist, Capitalist government. They both state in their books that the CIA coup was, at least in part, in the interests of United Fruit, who's president of PR was married to Eisenhower's personal secretary, and on which's Board of Directors had sat the Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. Dulles' brother, Allen Dulles, Director of the CIA who instituted the coup, worked for a law firm who represented the interests of United Fruit. Clearly the reviewer paulsrb has a political agenda of his own. I can only guess that Immerman, Gleijeses, and I'm sure Jonas, would take offense to his gross misinterpretations of their work. I know I did. I look forward to reading...