Dan Mitrione of the CIA went to Uruguay.
He preached:
"Precise pain, in the precise place,
in the precise amount, for desired effect."
His preferred method of torture:
Electrical shock to the genitals.

U.S. Ambassador Peurifoy
commanded the United States
paid and trained fringe Guatemalans
to remove their own elected popular president,
Jacobo Arbenz from office.
Arbenz angered the American owned United Fruit Company
when he gave unused land to hungry farmers to feed
their families and the families of Guatemalans.

Geneva Convention International Law need not apply
to the patchwork in place for legalized,
lawless intervention.
Since colonialism is passe,
imperialism frowned on,
economic influence and tipping the scale
gives way.

Peurifoy's attempted coups
didn't follow thorough,
loyal inner circle to Arbenz refused.
The States went full bore
paid, staged protests in the streets,
imported "New York Times" journalists to
report back home, "We mean the world no harm.
The "Free World" is championed by United States!"

We tip the scale when our interests are at stake.
Both Dulles brothers,
and hands full of Senators' bank accounts
are affected by United Fruit stock.
This man of the people Arbenz has to be stopped!
Beneath the modern paved streets of Central America
are rotted corpuses of formerly free people.

Developing nations are allowed to progress,
only at our whim, at our endorsement.
Allowed evolution as long as we're free:
to exploit natives,
economically
ecologically.
Permanently.

Fidel Castro, with his family survived
only 8 admitted U.S. failed assassination attempts.
Senator McCarthy said it was closer to 24.
Castro survived with only his skin, and cigars
economically boxed,
sanctioned for 40 years
to impotence.

Peurifoy eventually got his way,
6 years skating by, surviving coups
Arbenz did all he could do
finally cornered, Peurifoy offered a truce.
All he had to do read the prepared statement
and be done.
Arbenz would resign, be allowed to leave,
or so he believed.

Due to the chaos in achieving his goal
Peurifoy's mercenaries were now in control,
without their listening ears on.
So, he continued the push,
5 more Guatemalan overthrows in 11 days
'til he found the right, loyal candidate
whose strings could be pulled.

That surrender promise to Arbenz
didn't work out as sold.
Within days, asylum revoked,
on a world stage,
forced to disrobe
on the air strip
runway before boarding.

CIA spread rumors
he was smuggling riches from his homeland.
The only riches Arbenz possessed was his family jewels,
and slim pride.
Camera crews were called to cast live:
We'll beat you
defeat you, embarrass you,
for all Guatemala to see.

54 years later, more importantly
motivated only by International litigation,
Guatemala's government apologized:
"It was a crime against the people of Guatemala."
Deposition and betrayal of Arbenz
ignoring will of the people.

"Banana Republic," "Crony Capitalism" or other interchangeable terms,
actors have been reprising the same roles
on the world stage across
immeasurable periods of time.
All they want is to be free,
but don't realize they already are:
Free to do what we tell them,
And that's all they'll ever be.

*Education from Vijay Prashad's book: Washington Bullets: A History of CIA, Coups, and Assassinations