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Managing the Counterrevolution: The United States and Guatemala, 1954-1961. By Stephen M. Streeter. (Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000. xvi, 384 pp. Paper, $30.00, ISBN 0-89680-215-9.) The U.S.-orchestrated overthrow of the democratic government of Guatemala in 1954 has taken its place as a defining moment of America's Cold War crusade. Many scholars have described the ciA (Central Intelligence Agency) campaign of propaganda and subversion, which culminated in the June 1954 removal of Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Less is known about the U.S.Guatemalan relationship in the succeeding years. Stephen M. Streeter addresses this gap in the literature with his well-written and interesting account of the Eisenhower administration's goals and policies for Guatemala after 1954, in which he denounces the American actions that "bequeathed to Guatemala human tragedy, economic dependence, and political disorder."
Streeter is interested in the "goals, instruments, and consequences" of the Eisenhower administration's policies toward Guatemala...