Why Did the CIA Secretly Plot to Overthrow the Guatemalan

question 100

Multiple Choice

Why did the CIA secretly plot to overthrow the Guatemalan government under Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954?

• A) Arbenz began the systematic execution of his political opponents.
• B) Arbenz refused to allow the United States Navy to continue using port facilities in Guatemala.
• C) Arbenz, in a military coup, seized the Guatemalan government from its duly elected leaders.
• D) Arbenz expropriated land belonging to the United Fruit Company and thus was suspected of being a communist.

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