Word: guatemala
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Guillermo A. Coronado ’05 understands that type of responsibility. Coronado, a Social Studies concentrator in Dunster House, was born in Guatemala City but raised in a suburb of Chicago. He is the first member of his family to attend college, the first graduate of his high school to attend an Ivy League college, and the first member of his tightly-knit Pentecostal church to attend college...
...works twenty hours a week, Hernandez says she sees her life as one of luxury. “There are so many opportunities that I’m living as if I have a lot of money,” she exclaims, citing her spring break trip to Guatemala with HACIA. “I can focus on my studies without having to worry about heat. I don’t have to think about whether I have enough to eat tomorrow...
...more agile, effective intelligence agency. Or it could also mean a CIA that once again steps beyond the realm of collecting secrets to intervening forcibly in the affairs of foreign states. In that area, the agency's history has often been one of blunders and worse, from Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s through the Bay of Pigs fiasco under John F. Kennedy to the Nicaraguan war that led to the Iran-contra debacle in the '80s. Some longtime intelligence watchers are wondering whether a reinvigorated paramilitary wing of the CIA could be a mixed blessing for America once again...
...ousters that resulted in the deaths of the leaders of the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and Chile. When Ronald Reagan wanted to roll back communism in the 1980s, the agency organized paramilitary operations in Central America. These adventures had checkered results. The governments that the CIA destabilized in Iran, Guatemala and Chile were replaced by repressive regimes that ended up doing more damage in the long run to U.S. foreign policy...
June 1954 The CIA organizes a coup in Guatemala by COLONEL CARLOS CASTILLO ARMAS and other officers against leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman...