Connor Flynn's List: Death Squads in Central America

• Arbenz's government put forth a number of new policies that the U.S. intelligence community deemed Communist

• 1987        Under a conservative El Salvador government the Supreme Court ruled that the Finca El Espina coffee plantation had been illegally expropriated from the Duenas family and should be returned.
       (SFEC, 2/9/97, p.C18)

• JMARC). This paper was based on PBSUCCESS
• August 1960 Dwight Eisenhower authorized $13m to pay for JMARC.

• • 1954 First event on death squad timeline.
• overthrew Jacobo Arbenz  Guzman
• PBSUCCESS
• second legally elected president in Guatemalan history
• Arbenz  was seen as a reformer bent only on changing the country's rigid  oligarchy
• land reform program  threatened U.S. commercial interests, in particular those of the powerful  United Fruit Company
• permitted the Guatemalan  Communist Party to operate
• two years after Arbenz's election, the CIA had  begun recruiting an opposition force to overthrow him

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