John Foster Dulles
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John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A membe
Dulles, c. 1949
Dulles shaking hands with Sukarno in front of Richard Nixon, 1956
Dulles with President Eisenhower, 1956
Bust of Dulles inside the eponymous airport
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
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The democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in a coup d'état in 1954, marking the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos
Manuel Estrada Cabrera, President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920, granted several concessions to the United Fruit Company.
Farmland in the Quetzaltenango Department, in western Guatemala
The former headquarters of the United Fruit Company, in New Orleans. The company played a key role in instigating the 1954 coup d'état.