Guatemala: internet video on CIA role in 1954 coup

Was noodling around on YouTube, archive,org, and Google Video for material related to the 1954 CIA-backed coup of democratically elected Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz, and found:

Documentary: "A Coup: Made In America," written by Alan Mendelsohn and Nadine Pequeneza, originally aired in 2001 on Canadian television program "Turning Points of History." Patrick at Guatemalan Solidarity Network blog wrote about this here, and arte-sano (who pointed me to these videos via comment on this blog -- thanks!) wrote about it here. A Google Video embed of one clip is below, but I found a bunch of sections on YouTube, too: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Then-vice-president Nixon says in this clip, below: "In other words, the Arbenz regime was not a Guatemalan government, it was a foreign government controlled by foreigners."

"The CIA in Guatemala, 1954" -- snip from a documentary on U.S. intervention in Guatemala and the 1954 coup, mostly in Spanish. I'm not sure who produced this, but it opens with former CIA agent Philip Agee.

And an odd related find on YouTube -- a bunch of film clips from the 1944 Guatemalan revolution, set to motion over the Radiohead song "Sail to The Moon."

The GSN video blog points to a number of other interesting Guatemala-related video finds online, including more recent documentary films produced by Guatemalan filmmakers: Link.

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