Reddit mentions of The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention

It was more complicated than that, you're correct. But economic questions weren't irrelevant. Rather than talk out of school (my specialization), I thought I should point you at titles that may help and which I don't have to hand because I'm not in my office:

I don't know if this is too long in the tooth now, but Immerman's The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention may have some insights. Bear in mind it's 1983 so the situation became substantially more complicated in the following 7-10 years. But this may tell you a lot about that early period. Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions (1993) may also be worth a perusal.

But for more recent studies of US policy relative to the Guatemalan coup and its aftermath, I think Bitter Fruit (new edition, 2005) may still be at the top of the heap. Nick Cullather assembled the official CIA history of the 1950s coup in 1999, but I have never laid eyes on that book. I've read bits of Immerman and all of LaFeber, but a long time ago. Hopefully this will give you someplace to start!

This book, The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention, is actually good at painting a balanced portrait of this. In addition to telling the story of the two brothers and United Fruit Company, it provides a lot of context of the general Cold War anti-Soviet ambience, and the foreign policy mileu of the era. So much so that you switch around the title and subtitle so it was "The Foreign Policy of Intervention: The CIA in Guatemala" and it would still have been a suitable title for the book.

voted for Bernie, then Jill Stein, listen to alex, democracy now, tyt, a bunch of youtube channels, no to fox news. I actually spent a lot of hours searching WikiLeaks myself. I only pay for internet. It is hard to get reliable info from anywhere these days. everyone is selling something.

but I know this is how your professors present your other to you.

I actually have an advanced degree but can tell when someone is speaking from emotion and indoctrination rather than evidence, as you just did with your ad hominem.

this book has evidence that 3 bankers got the US involved in WWI. It's a great book: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520246713

check out this book. there are many like it for other countries that were victims to US involvement: https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Guatemala-Foreign-Policy-Intervention/dp/0292710836

just continue down this rabbit hole. review the sources yourself. they're all there.

Life in Debt is a good documentary about how the IMF destroys countries.

Watch Vice. Occasionally they cover this sort of thing.