Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] build an absolute monarchy similar to the one evident in the France of Louis XIV. The Whigs used the power they won through what was essentially a coup d’état to build the Empire and enormously expand their own fortunes in the process. They dominated governments, challenged only by another significant group of aristocrats, the […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of the US-sponsored coup d’état were deep and far reaching. For the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, ‘its triumph confirmed the belief….that covert operations offered a safe, inexpensive substitute for […]