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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
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[Daily article] August 27: Operation PBFortune
Operation PBFortune was a covert United States operation to overthrow
the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz
(pictured) in 1952. The operation was planned by the Central
Intelligence Agency and authorized by President Harry Truman. It was
motivated by US fears that Árbenz was being influenced by communists,
and lobbied for by the United Fruit Company. The operation was planned
with the support of Anastasio Somoza García, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the dictators of Nicaragua, the Dominican
Republic and Venezuela, respectively. The plan involved providing
weapons to the exiled Guatemalan military officer Carlos Castillo Armas,
who was to lead an invasion from Nicaragua. US secretary of state Dean
Acheson became concerned that the coup attempt would damage the image of
the US and terminated the operation. Two years later, another covert CIA
action, Operation PBSuccess, toppled the Árbenz government and ended
the Guatemalan Revolution.
the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz
(pictured) in 1952. The operation was planned by the Central
Intelligence Agency and authorized by President Harry Truman. It was
motivated by US fears that Árbenz was being influenced by communists,
and lobbied for by the United Fruit Company. The operation was planned
with the support of Anastasio Somoza García, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
and Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the dictators of Nicaragua, the Dominican
Republic and Venezuela, respectively. The plan involved providing
weapons to the exiled Guatemalan military officer Carlos Castillo Armas,
who was to lead an invasion from Nicaragua. US secretary of state Dean
Acheson became concerned that the coup attempt would damage the image of
the US and terminated the operation. Two years later, another covert CIA
action, Operation PBSuccess, toppled the Árbenz government and ended
the Guatemalan Revolution.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_PBFortune>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1928:
The first three of more than sixty nations signed the
Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national
policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact>
1964:
South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a
triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện
Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to
unseat Khánh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_V%C4%83n_Minh>
1990:
American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most
influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed
in a helicopter crash.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Stevie_Ray_Vaughan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
as ever trod shoe-leather:
(idiomatic, archaic) As ever existed or lived.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/as_ever_trod_shoe-leather>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying, "Now you
are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the
leaders you please." You do not take a person who, for years, has been
hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of
a race and then say, "You are free to compete with all the others," and
still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not
enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have
the ability to walk through those gates. And this is the next and the
more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just
freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human
ability, not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a
fact, and equality as a result.
--Lyndon B. Johnson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson>
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