After the CoupThis exceptional collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post 1954 U. S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970s and 1980s. This volume is of particular interest in the current era of the United States' re emerging