Have you ever wondered what stories hide behind a single date? Every day has a history. July 8 is no exception. Let's peek ...

THE Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown on June 26 1955, 70 years ago. Thousands of delegates travelled from across South ...

The Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown 70 years ago, on 26 June 1955. Thousands of delegates travelled across South ...

The Freedom Charter of South Africa was born of struggle. It must now be defended and renewed through struggle.

It’s a reference to U.S. actions during the Cold War to undermine democratically elected governments across the region, including Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in the 1950s and Chilean ...

In a brief discussion of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz, who was overthrown by a U.S.-backed coup d’état in 1954, Gerges shows this American preoccupation was hardly unique to the Middle East.

Since he marched under the banner of antiCommunism, he will doubtless deal sternly with any real Reds or their sympathizers in the overthrown government of former President Jacobo Arbenz—if he ...

Arévalo’s successor, President Jacobo Arbenz, had introduced a land reform program that was confiscating the unused, fallow planting fields of the nation’s largest employer, the US-owned ...

In 1954, the CIA backed a coup against Guatemala’s democratically elected president, Jacobo Árbenz, a social democrat whose attempts at agrarian reform had convinced the U.S. government that he ...

Bernardo Arévalo was born in Uruguay, where his father was in exile following the ouster in a 1954 CIA-backed coup of his successor, President Jacobo Árbenz, whom the U.S. saw as a threat during ...

Arévalo is the son of the country’s first elected president, Juan José Arévalo (1945-1951), who remained within the left nationalist government of his successor Jacobo Arbenz when it was ...