Because Arbenz could not be pressured to take into consideration the arguments made to prevent expropriation from UFCo, his government was undermined with propaganda.

That was so despite such things as the overthrow of Guatemala's elected non-Communist Jacobo Arbenz, for instance, on behalf of the United Fruit Company with whom senior US officials had an important business relationship.

Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes Operation PBSUCCESS, a program of " psychological warfare and political action " and " subversion ," that succeeds in removing the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán with the help of Guatemalan military general Carlos Castillo Armas.

In that same year, due to his relationship with his brother Allen Dulles, the Director of CIA and a former member of the Board Of Directors of the United Fruit Company, based in Guatemala, Foster Dulles was pivotal in promoting and executing the CIA-led Operation PBSUCCESS that overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.

The directors of United Fruit Company ( UFCO ) had lobbied to convince the Truman and Eisenhower administrations that Colonel Arbenz intended to align Guatemala with the Soviet Bloc.

The governor and the National Party failed in their attempts to discredit the PUP on the issue of its contacts with Guatemala, which was then ruled by the democratic, reformist government of President Jacobo Arbenz.

He grew increasingly disillusioned with the role of the CIA and the United States due to events including the CIA's involvement in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran in 1953, followed by the CIA's orchestration of the coup that removed President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954.

Toriello Garrido, a civilian, led the government along with Captain Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán and Major Francisco Javier Arana after overthrowing the military regime of Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, who had temporarily taken over from ousted dictator Jorge Ubico.

* CounterPunch, 17 July 2009, From Arbenz to Zelaya: Chiquita in Latin America with video report by Democracy Now!

In 1954, the campaign succeeded and the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency helped orchestrate a coup that replaced Arbenz with a military junta led by Col. Carlos Castillo Armas.

" Later, in April 1952, Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza García visited US President Harry Truman and said that if provided arms, he would collaborate with Guatemalan exile Carlos Castillo Armas to overthrow Guatemalan President Arbenz.

Arana and Arbenz, still both highly regarded at the time, anticipated to soon succeed Arévalo.

Diane K. Stanley, a former U. S. diplomat and the daughter of a Welsh-born employee of the United Fruit Co. in Guatemala, argues in the book For the Record: The United Fruit Company's Sixty-six Years in Guatemala, published in 1994, that the negative perception of the company's influence in Guatemala is largely undeserved, and could be due in part to the unwillingness of left-wing journalists and writers to critically examine the legacy of the administrations of Presidents Arévalo and Arbenz.

* Guatemala: land reform occurred during the " Ten Years of Spring ", 1944 – 1954 under the governments of Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz.

The PGT was generally supportive of the reform efforts launched by Juan José Arévalo and Col. Arbenz after the overthrow of right-wing military dictator Gen. Jorge Ubico in 1944.

Born in Guatemala City, he played important roles in the governments of both Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz, including periods as Ambassador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947, as a deputy in the National Congress from 1947 to 1951, and being both leader of the Congress and Vice-President between 1948 and 1949 before retiring from politics in 1951.

Arbenz did not have much choice except either to yield or to fight back.

Arbenz ’ government was attempting to be neutral ; however constant pressure eventually had led him to rely more heavily on more dedicated reformers in revolutionary organizations.

Arbenz proceeded to nationalize and redistribute un-utilized land owned by the United Fruit Company, which had a practical monopoly on Guatemalan fruit production and some industry.

Stanley also argues that while the company did orchestrate " an effective media campaign against the Arbenz government, it is clear that the Eisenhower administration was intent on ousting what it considered to be a Communist beachhead that threatened U. S. national security.

Spurred on by John Foster Dulles, his vehemently anti-Communist secretary of state, President Eisenhower would have moved to depose Arbenz even if the United Fruit Company had never operated in Guatemala.

In 1953, The U. S. State Department and United Fruit embarked on a major public relations campaign to convince the American people and the rest of the U. S. government that Colonel Jacobo Arbenz intended to make Guatemala a Soviet " satellite.

The plan was never fully executed, as the Arbenz government fell in a U. S .- sponsored coup d ' état on 29 June 1954 ; the government offered no significant resistance.

A leading Honduran communist, he moved to Guatemala in 1944 fleeing political persecution, where he worked on the Nuestro Diario ( Our Daily ) newspaper and was very supportive of the left-wing government of Jacobo Arbenz.

After Jacobo Arbenz came to power in 1951, he extended political freedom, allowing Communists in Guatemala to participate in politics.

However, Although communism had not been officially legalized until the inauguration of reformist President Col. Jacobo Arbenz, the party had participated in political activities more or less openly ; some avowed communists were employed in high-level positions in the civil service and educational bureaucracy.

The land reform initiatives implemented by the Arbenz government attracted more foreign attention to Guatemala's political scene.

Arbenz also permitted the Communist Guatemalan Party of Labour to achieve legal status in 1952.

He also played a major role in the Central Intelligence Agency operation to overthrow the democratic Mossadegh government of Iran in 1953 ( Operation Ajax ) and the democratic Arbenz government of Guatemala in 1954 ( Operation PBSUCCESS ).

The coup was supported by CIA radio broadcasts and so the Guatemalan army refused to resist the coup, Arbenz was forced to resign.

His administration explained that in order for Guatemala to improve its economy the Agrarian Reform was necessary, therefore Arbenz claimed he would adopt policies for a nationalist economic development if necessary.

In addition to Arbenz success, Guatemalan Communist Party moved forward its activities into public.

Arbenz was firm in promoting the Agrarian Reform and within a couple of years had acted quickly.

One of them was against PGT, a faction Arbenz was attempting to support.

The Communist Party was never the center of the Communist movement in Guatemala until Jacobo Arbenz came to power in 1951.

The Eisenhower administration at the time in the U. S. were not happy about the Arbenz government, they considered Arbenz to be too close to Communism ; there have been reports that Arbenz ’ s wife was a Communist and part of the Communist Party in Guatemala.

In 1954, the democratically elected Guatemalan government of Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was toppled by U. S .- backed forces led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas who invaded from Honduras.

Besides the disputed issue of Arbenz's allegiance to Communism, UFCO was being threatened by the Arbenz government ’ s agrarian reform legislation and new Labor Code.

UFCO was the largest Guatemalan landowner and employer, and the Arbenz government ’ s land reform included the expropriation of 40 % of UFCO land.

Even as the Arbenz government was being overthrown, in 1954 a general strike against the company organized by workers in Honduras rapidly paralyzed the country and thanks to the United States ' concern about the events in Guatemala, was settled more favorably for the workers in order to gain fuller leverage for the Guatemala operation.

This structure was later demolished during the government of Col. Jacobo Arbenz in the early years of the 1950s, but similar Temples in Quetzaltenango and other cities still stand.

Mockingbird was very active during the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala during Operation PBSUCCESS.

This invasion followed the successful overthrow by the CIA of the Mosaddeq government in Iran in 1953 and Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954, but was a failure both militarily and politically.