1953: Official Says Guatemala ‘Increasing Threat’

Charles R. Burrows of the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs writes: “Guatemala has become an increasing threat to the stability of Honduras and El Salvador. Its agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon; its broad social program of aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious struggle against the upper classes and large foreign enterprises has a strong appeal to the populations of Central American neighbors where similar conditions prevail.” [Gleijeses, 1992, pp. 365; South End Press, 1993; Siekmeier, 1994, pp. 26]