. —— jacobo arbenz, did as president.y, which had enormous economic power in guatemala at the time, didn't like the changes. they became very upset when they saw that their monopoly was being affected. this was the time of the cold war, so they took advantage of this to label my father a communist, which was totally untrue. and that is how they promoted and justified to the idea of an invasion. aircraft parachute meagre supplies to the airstrip as the rebel drive to oust the red government box down. the shabbily clad, poorly trained troops overrun the sleepy town... the basic plan of the sleepy town... the basic plan of the cio was to promote an invasion from neighbouring honduras. —— cia. they trained mercenaries in the us and in honduras as well. but at first, when they crossed into guatemala, the army managed to beat them back. my father spent most of them back. my father spent most of the time in the ministry of defence. i remember him always looking very worried, pacing up and down, smoking, trying to work out what t

jacobo arbenz, with his memories of the first latin american coup organised by the cia., and the final days of the civil war in sri lanka. for more than two decades, the army had fought the tamil tiger rebels, but in 2009, the government forces began to close in on them. thousands of civilians were trapped alongside rebel fighters beyond the reach ofjournalists, aid workers, and independent witnesses. former united nations official gordon weiss remembers it as one of the worst situations he had ever encountered. newsreel: sri lanka's government says it is close to winning the island's civil war after 25 years. the fighting has been intense and bloody. in a 25—year civil war, there had been many, many terrible episodes. but this final few months of the war was by far the most bitter and the most vicious. 250,000 people caught in the middle, hungry, frightened, tired, many of them on the run from fighting for up to a year, some of them have been displaced 10 or 15 times. i worked in a number of conflict zones before and since the war in sri lanka. but the sri lankan experi