Guatemala Readings - Bitter Fruit

I am always shocked whenever I read about the disaster that has stricken Guatemala over the past century or so. The amount of corruption, abuse, terror and human rights violations at the hands of or Worlds "democratic leader" blows my mind. Today it is easier to understand what with 9/11, Iraq and Afganistan but back in the 1980s I remember the war as a child. At the time Guatemala did not seem to be involved in an international scandal but rather a poor 3rd world country struggling to get things together socially, politically and economically. ( I guess that is what they wanted us to believe). Now looking back and discovering the true players, it makes absolute sense why the country ended up the way it did. The article also sheds light onto the behaviours of the US for the last 60 years. By using Guatemala as its "poster child" the US was able to boost itself onto a pedestal formulating a foreign policy which it felt was successful and beneficial to the American country. What it did not seem to care about was the turmoil, confusion and abuses of human rights it left in its wake.
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