Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shekara guda, a cikin "Operation PBSuccess", CIA ta taimaka wa sojojin gida wajen hambarar da zaɓaɓɓen gwamnatin hagu na Jacobo Árbenz a Guatemala da kuma sanya mai mulkin soja Carlos Castillo Armas. Kamfanin United Fruit Company ya yi kira ga Árbenz ya kifar da shi yayin da sauye-sauyensa na ƙasa ya yi barazana ga mallakar ƙasarsu a Guatemala, kuma ya zana waɗannan gyare-gyare a matsayin barazanar kwaminisanci. Juyin mulkin ya haifar da yakin basasa na shekaru da yawa
wanda ya kashe rayukan kimanin mutane 200,000 (an rubuta takaddun mutum 42,275), galibi ta hanyar kisan kiyashi 626 da sojojin Guatemala da Amurka ke tallafawa suka yi wa mutanen Maya. Hukumar Bayyana Tarihi mai zaman kanta ta gano cewa kamfanonin Amurka da jami'an gwamnati "sun matsa lamba don ci gaba da tsarin zamantakewar tattalin arzikin kasar da ba daidai ba", kuma cewa taimakon sojan Amurka yana da "muhimmiyar tasiri kan keta hakkin dan adam a lokacin rikici".