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Plan of San Luis Potosi

Issued in 1910 calling for the nullification of the elections and upon Mexicans to take up arms against the government. The date of its issue marks…

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Cabbages and Kings

A 1904 novel by O. Henry that first introduces the term “banana republic,” depicting a fictional Central American country marked by foreign economic…

Contributors: Project Gutenberg (digitization)

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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (Excerpt, Document 5)

A declassified CIA historical document detailing U.S. involvement in the 1954 Guatemalan coup, illustrating direct political intervention in a state…

Contributors: Edited by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh

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Glorious Victory (1954)

A 1954 painting by Diego Rivera depicting the U.S backed overthrow of Guatemala’s government, critiquing corporate and political exploitation

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