AMERICAN BETRAYAL
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"My country will be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the law," said President Truman in Mexico City in 1947. It turned out America was neither. We must remember that this was the era of the beginning of the Cold War. America was determined to lead the world. This was not only politically. It was also economically. The African experience was being colonized by Western nations. Their manpower was used as cheap labor. Their minerals and other products went to enrich Europe. Even as more African states gained independence, they were now ruled by Western-style dictators. But, Africa was not alone as a target in Western sights. America was interested in Iran. It had oil. It was close to Russia. And, America was interested in Guatemala. The "Communist scare" now America from Russia as enemy to left-wing leaders in Central America. These two nations are proof of American betrayal of entire nations. American interference brought back the Shah. American interference caused the coup in Guatemala. America took sides. First, Guatemala. To many, the Western hemisphere was seen as a series of American colonies. The Monroe Doctrine told Europe to stay away. It did not say that the United States could, or should, not interfere. The instability of Central American countries gave the United States a political as well as economic reason to interfere. The political reasons were because some governments were leftist. Economic, because American firms had bi
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program, particularly as it affected United Fruit" (107). Land reform would mean human dignity for the poor Guatemalan citizens. Human dignity was not in the plans of United Fruit. Cheap labor and control of the land was. Even the usual Latin-American right-wing Catholic church agreed. "A pastoral letter signed by a number of Guatemalan bishopsąattacked the government for allowing the peasants to receive 'salaries that hardly permit (them) to avoid death by starvation'" (242). It seems, from reading this book, that a "good neighbor" for the US is one who gives in to economic pressure and selects leaders that don't make any waves.
America spelled Iran O-I-L. The former Persia was becoming a modern nation. It had oil reserves that could make it rich. One problem was, Iran was too close to the Russian border. Iran was more or less a democracy. Islam was not a political factor at the time. The prime minister was Mohammad Mossadegh, who fought against the long monopoly of Iran's oil production by British companies. Most Americans knew little about Iran. That would change when "British agents began to conspire to overthrow Mossadegh soon after he nationalized the oil company" (Kinzer 2003 3). And, why not? Nationalizing meant the
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