History of Latin America
Populism, Nationalism, and Transition to the Cold War

Lecture outline
Readings : film "Eva Perón"
 Midterm Paper due Tuesday midnight

Guatemala in 1954: reports on Arbenz's posthumous homecoming in 1995, and some National Security Archive declassified documents from the coup.

Time Magazine's coverage of the coup, and of Arbenz's exile several months later.

It's always fun to track the changes to Wikipedia articles. Last time I checked (likely a while ago), the article on Operation PBSuccess was thorough and relatively accurate. The connection between the Guatemalan coup and Operation Ajax (1953) in Iran is worth contemplating--especially given the common, anti-imperialist cause between Iran and Latin American countries such as Venezuela today.

ECLA (now ECLAC since the Caribbean has join in), founded 1947 and still going....