Tag: Guatemala

How British intelligence destabilised democracy in Central America
Newly declassified files reveal how the British government played a pivotal role in undermining Guatemala’s democratic government in the early 1950s. Through the Information Research Department (IRD) of the Foreign Office, British officials inundated the country with exaggerated anti-communist propaganda and funded conspiratorial student organisations. Ultimately, British intelligence radicalised domestic politics and contributed to the […]
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