Guatemala
This Guatemalan president was overthrown in 1954 with help from the CIA for attempting land reforms.
Who is Jacobo Árbenz?
The U.S. Secretary of State who gave Argentina’s junta a “green light” for their repression in 1976.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
This is the geopolitical conflict motivated the United States to support a series of military coups led by right-wing officers in El Salvador.
What is the Cold War?
This term is the longer version of "coup"
This U.S. fruit company lobbied hard for the Árbenz overthrow after he tried to redistribute its unused land.
what is the United Fruit Company?
This woman was president of Argentina before being ousted in the 1976 military coup.
Who is Isabel Perón?
This was the political leaning of the sect of military officers who overthrew the hardline military junta in the 1979 coup.
What is moderate/reformist?
These are ways to counteract a coup attempt.
What is counterbalancing, mobilization, calling it a coup, and reinforcing democratic institutions?
The CIA operation that led to the 1954 Guatemalan coup had this code name.
What is Operation PBSUCCESS/PBFORTUNE?
The period from 1976 to 1983 when the military dictatorship abducted, tortured, and “disappeared” thousands.
What is the Dirty War?
This is the archbishop assassinated by supporters of Roberto D'Aubuisson in 1980 and who has since been canonized by Pope Francis
Who is Oscar Romero?
This former Brazilian president was indicted in March 2025 on coup planning by the Brazil's Supreme Court.
Who is Jair Bolsonaro?
After the 1954 coup, Guatemala endured this many years of civil war, marked by genocide and state terror.
What is 36 years? (1960–1996)
This group of brave women marched weekly in Plaza de Mayo demanding the return of their missing children.
Who are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo?
This village was the site of a 1981 massacre where military forces killed over 800 innocant civilians.
What is El Mozote?
This one organization who has assisted in negotiating between coup plotters and civilian governments.
What is the Organization of America States (OAS)?
This U.S. Secretary of State, serving under President Eisenhower, played a pivotal role in orchestrating the 1954 coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz.
Who is John Foster Dulles?
The number of people estimated to have been forcibly “disappeared” during Argentina’s Dirty War.
What is 30,000?
This was the strategy of Salvadoran military against the left-wing guerillas that was inspired by US strategy in Vietnam
What is "scorched earth"?
This is the number of months between the a failed 1973 coup against Chile's Allende ad the successful coup against Allende by Pinochet.
What is 3?