(preview) The Banana Regime

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.1 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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We discuss the 1954 CIA backed coup of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and the far right regime that replaced him... for no particular reason FULL EP AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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0:00.0	People who replace our bends, they conduct torture.
0:04.4	They have death squads that massacre entire villages.
0:08.5	There are executions.
0:10.7	And it's not even just like focused.
0:14.0	It's just like a very widespread just assault on the people of Guatemala.
0:20.8	Ultimately, 250,000 people. assault on the people of Guatemala.
0:25.9	Ultimately, 250,000 people die.
0:30.4	And that's in a country of in 1952, 4 million.
0:32.9	So that's just so many.
0:35.5	That's a 16th of the country.
0:36.8	Jesus Christ.

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