In the excerpt, Eisenhower justified the overthrow of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz, because of the communist threat the country had posed to the United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.
so basically they did this because Eisenhower and his top advisors were really worried that president jacobo ar benz guzman was too willing to cooperate with local communists, even though they had only a limited role in his government.
