In the era immediately following the coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, how did the United States maintain its influence in Guatemala?

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Jordin Marsh

31 March, 03:30

In the era immediately following the coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, how did the United States maintain its influence in Guatemala?

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Lisa Kent · Answer 1

As the Cold War heated up in the 1950s, the United States made decisions on foreign policy with the goal of containing communism. To maintain its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, the U. S. intervened in Guatemala in 1954 and removed its elected president, Jacobo Arbenz, on the premise that he was soft on communism.