It was 59
years ago today that Guatemala's democratically-elected president Jacobo
Árbenz was overthrown in a CIA-engineered coup. Among those caught up in
the upheaval in Guatemala at the time - and the mass repression against
Árbenz's partisans and the left in general - was an Argentine physician
named Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Guevara subsequently fled to Mexico where
he met a Cuban exile there named Fidel Castro...The complicating ironies
of history...
