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Freedom House Ratings, Freedom in the World 2003
2003: Political Rights: 4, Civil Liberties: 4, Status: Partly Free, Economy: Capitalist-statist |
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World: 2003 Annual Report
2001: 6.3 (out of 10) |
Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World: 2004 Annual Report
2002: 6.4 (out of 10) |
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Level of Economic Freedom, Economic Freedom of the World
2005: 7.1 (out of 10) |
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An Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy: Guatemala, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 11 Feb 2005
"... in 1954 the CIA secretly organized and engineered a military coup in Guatemala that ousted the democratically elected Arbenz from power. ... the four decades of brutal, torturous, U.S.-government-supported military rule ... precipitated a civil war in Guatemala that would ... take the lives of more than 200,000 Guatemalan people." |
Improve the CIA? Better to abolish it, by Chalmers Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb 2004
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, United States, Vietnam
Lists countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency. |
Killing in the Name of Democracy, by James Bovard, Attention Deficit Democracy, 27 Jan 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, William McKinley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
Excerpt from the "Messianic Democracy" chapter
"In 1954 ... [the] elected Guatemalan government and the United Fruit Company could not agree on the value of 400,000 acres that the ... government wanted to expropriate to distribute to small farmers. The ... government offered $1.2 million ... Washington insisted on behalf of United Fruit that the value was $15.9 million ..." |
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