Guatemala

GUATEMALA

1524 – Guatemala had been the centre of the Mayan civilization, that flourished for a thousand years. Conquistadors invaded in 1524. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

1540 – Santiago capital of Guatemala was destroyed by and earthquake in 1540. (Lost explorers. Ed Wright UK no date).

Mid 1500s – Bishop Diego de Lande, the Spanish burned all the Mayan bark cloth books. The Mayan collection was destroyed, so was anyone who knew anything about it. Mayans lived in Guatemala. (A history of info storage and retrieval. Foster Stockwell ©2001 US).

1800s -1980s – By the end of the 1800s Boston based company United Fruit operated in Guatemala until the early 1950s. In 1954 the CIA organised a coup, American planes bombed the capital and installed Col Carlos Castillo Armas. A civil war erupted in 1960, right wing death squads. 1980s violence, torture and killings. (The secret history of the America empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

1920 – The US sent troops to Guatemala. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone. ©2012 US).

1952 – The Socialist Arbenz government nationalized 400,000 acres of unfarmed banana plantations, belonging to American United Fruit company in 1952. Arbenz invited the Communists to join his coalition. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1954 – After the right wing revolution in Guatemala in 1954, Cummings supplied the new government of Castillo-Armas with American Garand rifles, which he brought in the UK. (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1954 – CIA covert action was to topple the regime in Guatemala. Eisenhower’s PA was married to the head of PR at United Fruit, the corporation that engineered the overthrow of Guatemala’s government in 1954, after it nationalized land. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

June 1954 – On 17 June 1954 Colonel Carlos Castillo Armes and his wife crossed the Honduran border into Guatemala. For several days Hunt and the CIA got American jets and pilots to strafe and bombard Guatemala city. It lead a mercenary army financed and trained by the CIA in a CIA coup. The Lodge family, Henry Cabot Lodge had investments in United Fruit company. 25 June 1954 Arbenz resigned and went into exile in Mexico (Who really killed Kennedy. Jarome C Corsi © 2013 US).

June 1954 – The Eisenhower govt, allowed the CIA to overthrow the govt of Pres Jacobo Arbenez in Guatemala. The Czechs were trying to sell Guatemala German military equipment from World War Two. Historian Piero Gleijeses searched Guatemalan archives, which had been seized by the CIA. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

July August 1954 – On 3 July 1954 Carlos Castillo Armas went to Guatemala city on a US embassy plane. 8 July 1965 in Aug 1954 Armes suspended all civil liberties. Within a week the govt arrested 4,000 people accused of Communism. Within four months 72,000 Guatemalans became registered Communists. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

26 July 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas was assassinated, four days after trying to close a casino owned by US Mafia Johnny Roselli. Roselli and Carlos Marcello from New Orleans were expanding in Guatemala. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

26 July 1957 – The CIA organised the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armez in Guatemala. 26 July 1957. CIA E Howard. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

1960s – Robert Kennedy had Marcello deported to Guatemala. Marcello was born in Tunisia North Africa and got fake documents saying he was born in Guatemala. Aided by pilot David Ferrie, Marcello made his way back to the US via Florida. David Ferrie introduced him to Oswald in New Orleans. Jack Ruby was paying off corrupt police in Dallas. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

15 March 1961 – Robert Kennedy ordered Carlos Marcello deported to Guatemala, where he had brought a birth certificate. On 4 April 1961 Marcello was sent to Guatemala. Bad treatment of Marcello from Robert Kennedy. (Mafia pdf).

28 August 1968 – The US ambassador to Guatemala was assassinated. John Gordon Mein was murdered by a rebel faction, when gunmen forced his official car off the road in Guatemala city and raked the vehicle with gunfire.

28 August 1968 –A  drive by assassination killed the American ambassador to Guatemala.

1976 – A 7.5 quake killed more than 20,000 people. This November 2012 quake is the strongest since then. ABC news Australia 8 Nov 2012.

4 Feb 1976 – 23,000 killed 7.5 quake. Rapture ready.

1982 – Stephen Kinzer. Bitter fruit. The untold story of the American coup in Guatemala. Garden city NY. Doubleday.

1982 – Richard H Immerman. The CIA in Guatemala. The foreign policy of intervention. Austin uni of Texas press.

1990s – Cali cartel. Guatemala was a warehouse for cocaine. Most of the cocaine trafficking there was Cali cartel. Traffickers went by Guatemala to move 50 to 75 tons of cocaine a year to the US. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

1990 – The army murdered civilians in Santiago Atitlan, one of many massacres. Officially classified as “disappeared”. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).

1991 – Piero Gleijeses. Shattered hope, the Guatemalan and the US 1944-54. Princeton uni press.

1999 – Secret history, the CIA’s classified account of its operations in Guatemala 1952-54. Nick Cullather. Piero Gleijeses. Stanford Calif. Worldcat database.

18 Nov 2005 – Drugs and the Guatemala military. Texas Observer.

21 Nov 2005 – The Guatemala police archives. Images from Guatemala secret files of repression.

23 August 2007 – AP US customs seized semi submarine with millions worth of cocaine off Guatemala. http://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory?id=3514862

2010 – At a shelter in Guatemala, girls aged 12-14 with babies from rape, were rescued from brothels on the Mexican border. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Mexico, the southern part of the state of Tlaxcala, sex trafficking. The border of Guatemala and Mexico is similar to the rural areas of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK).

2010 – Casino owners in Cambodia, UK and Nevada US, owners of brothels in Mexico, Colombia and Spain. A group of ex-military called the Zetas, control and distribute illegal adult and child porn in Mexico and Guatemala. Software comes from Singapore. Servers in Holland, where porn is legal. Russian mafia in Mexico and Guatemala. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK).

22 Nov 2011 – Remains of two Guatemalan death squad victims diary found in mass grave. DNA.

7 Nov 2012 – Reuters. Strong quake off Guatemala kills eight, felt in Mexico city. By Mike McDonald.

7 Nov 2012 – 7.4 quake Champurico San Marcos 51 killed 22 missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

11 Nov 2012 – 6.5 magnitude quake rattles Guatemala coast. NZ Herald. Just 4 days after a major quake killed dozens and left thousands homeless.

24 Aug 2013 – Guatemala court convicts national police chief. Convicted of 1984 Ferrando Garcia diappearance.

8 July 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.9 earthquake kills three in Guatemala. Mexico Guatemala border. 7.1 at first.

29 Oct 2014 – Cipameicas. Guatemalan officers face sex slavery charges in trial. Upside Down World. On 14 Oct 2014.Guatemalan court for high risk. Two members guilty of  sex slavery. Sex violence. Forced disappearances and rapes. Victims are stigmatised, lied about the threatened by their communities.

18 Dec 2014 – American arrested for illegal adoption of a child and human trafficking in Guatemala. Fox news. Guatemala city.

21 Dec 2014 – Latin Post. American orphanage founder arrested and accused of human trafficking and illegal adoptions in Guatemala. Claudia Balthazar.