The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention

by Richard H. Immerman

Book Overview

Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292710836
• ISBN13: 9780292710832
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Factual, balanced account

This is a good, factual balanced account which brings to bear all the relevant facts and leaves out any ideological bias. It's also very well written and makes for an easy read.

The harsh reality of American Policy of Intervention

The CIA in Guatemala offers the reader a compeling and shocking truth regarding the involevement of the American government in third-world country. Immerman relates in detail how the CIA and United Fruit magnates paint the guatemalan flag red and declare the country communist because they misinterpreted Agrarian Reform as a direct threat to "National Security." Boldly told, the reader finds himself amist a sea of revelations and a little confusion as the story unfolds, but it is only natural for a book of this nature. Immeran has done a wonderful job explaining foreign and political intervention about the american titan otherwise know as the "Gobierno Gringo." A marvelous account of past events are exposed after years of being witheld by the CIA as classified documents. I invoke anybody with an interest in politics, governmet intervention or just to inderstand how foreign interests dictate a small nation by placing puppet presidents to do their bidding to read this book.