Details

Subject(s)

• Guatemala—Politics and government—1945-1985 [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—Guatemala [Browse]
• Guatemala—Foreign relations—United States [Browse]

Related name

• Gale (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

In 1954 the United States government actively intervened in Guatemala toppling a democratically elected government. Thus these documents from the State Department show how U.S. foreign policy toward Guatemala took form in the period leading up to the 1954 coup that overthrew president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and they show how that policy shifted after that year toward reshaping the Guatemalan government's domestic policies in a way that coincided with U.S. commercial interests. Some scholars have argued that the 1954 coup directly resulted in the deadly Guatemalan civil war of the 1970s and 1980s. The diplomatic cables, memoranda, and correspondence from the United States State Department provide insight on how these events were shaped in the context of the Cold War.

Notes

• Source library: U.S. National Archives.
• Areas of research supported by this collection include: U.S. involvement in Guatemala; Civil war in Guatemala; and U.S. Cold War policy in Central America.

Other title(s)

Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and Guatemala, 1945-1959

In

World scholar. Latin America & the Caribbean

OCLC

793864816

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