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EPISODE · Feb 17, 2024 · 22 MIN

Episode 76: Financial Coups - Haiti, FDR and Guatemala

from The Y in History · host Ajay Kaul

In 1914, American Marines rob Haiti's National Bank of $500,000 in Gold Reserves at th ebehest of the National City Bank. Wall Street looks to topple FDR and replace him with a business friendly Dictator. United Fruit, now Chiquita engineers the ouster of the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

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