Liberation

Declassified & Discovered Documents

More than 65 years after the United States government orchestrated the overthrow of Guatemala’s popular, democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz—and after various waves of disclosures and declassifications—we’ve collected, unearthed, and catalogued the primary and secondary documents that tell the story.

here are the specific documents We referred to in The Narratively story:

Setup / Stage 1 / Stage 2 / Stage 3 / Stage 4 / Stage 5 / Stage 6 / Epilogue / Books & Additional Sources

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