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In the 1970s and 80s, Guatemala saw a joint effort by a military junta, the United Fruit Company, the CIA and American Evangelicals to suppress an indigenous guerrilla movement. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.

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Episode researched and written by Hayden Tank. Episode edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is A Desalambrar by Victor Jara.

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Bibliography

Lauren F. Turek - ‘To Support a “Brother in Christ”’; 

Greg Grandin - ‘The Blood of Guatemala’; 

Greg Grandin - ‘The Last Colonial Massacre’; 

Sara Diamond - ‘Spiritual Warfare’; 

Rick Perlstein - ‘Reaganland’; 

Vincent Bevins - ‘The Jakarta Method’; 

Virginia Garrard-Burnett - ‘Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit’; 

Kevin Kruse - ‘One Nation Under God’; 

Jonathan P. Herzog - ‘The Spiritual-Industrial Complex’; 

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https://nacla.org/news/2018/04/24/ríos-montt-evangelist

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/linked-arms

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/science-jan-june13-guatemala_05-08

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/9/8/244359/-Path-9-11-Financer-YWAM-s-Terrorist-Connections

https://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Bodies-emerge-from-Guatemala-s-war-era-model-12462126.php

https://www.voanews.com/a/bodies-emerge-guatemalas-war-era-model-villages/4184230.html

https://books.google.at/books?id=5-YDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PT24&ots=hGQuw-9tij&dq=%22rios+montt%22+israel&pg=PT27&redir_esc=y#v=onepage

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57387350

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/ronald-reagan-wasnt-afraid-to-use-leverage-to-hold-israel-to-task/

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/september/5.21.html

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https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/context/cc_etds_theses/article/1780/&path_info=Evangelical_Dictatorship_Driving_the_Guatemalan_Civil_War.pdf

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/10/13/the-myth-of-the-squeaky-clean-us

https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-remains-guilty-in-guatemala/

https://jacobin.com/2021/06/kamala-harris-central-america-guatemala-visit-us-imperialism

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/24/october-surprise-ben-barnes/

Comments

Aj Champigny

It sounds like you're continuously saying my weird specific surname in conjunction with a litany of crimes but fortunately I looked it up and I'm pretty sure I have nothing to do with that guy, phew.

Seb

Had me tearing up by the last few lines the sheer injustice is fucking staggering

Overzealous Euthanasiast

Talking of potential genocides America and I suspect the west in general are supporting right now, have you heard what minimal reporting there is on the current US-backed operation in Ecuador going on, literally called, i kid you not - 'operation total extermination' yet? At this point I've ran out of words beyond shouting "cunts!" sometimes prefixed with "psychotic" other times not. We need more words for the endless cruelty our countries profit off, even if it only stops me being auto modded on American sites who haven't figured how to ungender their swear words yet - also fuck Google search AI for claiming there was no such thing right above the first result being a news report of the actual thing lmao

Brent

Ríos Montt goes into the pantheon of those “worse than Hitler”. At least at the end, Hitler turned his violence on the only correct target.

Mark Kreitz

Damn. This was a depressing one

Robbie Coulter

Shoutout Hayden! Love Bible Lore Podcast!

Cassidy

I know right? There’s a documentary on YouTube called Harvest of Empire that covers some of this history and other parts of Latin America that suffered the same fate as Guatemala. I watched it about ten years ago and it was the first time I’d been confronted with the reality of US genocide in the region. I stood aghast as I watched dead bodies everywhere, slaughtered in the name of empire and resource extraction. I’m still nauseous thinking about it.

Cassidy

I’m gonna need to listen to this one again. The first time through I could only internalize so much disgusting cruelty 😭