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American Green Berets helped to train this country's notorious kaibiles unit. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's grandfather pressured Manuel Orellana ("or-ey-AH-nah") to resign as president of this country, (0[1])and (0[1])Orellana's daughters were part of CIA-sponsored "Voice (20[1])of Liberation" radio recordings (20[1])in a later coup (20[1])masterminded by (0[1])the Dulles (20[1])brothers. The (0[1])Guerrilla Army (20[1])Of The (20[1])Poor (20[2])fought (20[1])in a civil (20[1])war in this country that began a few years after Operation (*) PBSUCCESS. (10[9]0[1])The (10[1])so-called (0[2])"Silent (10[2])Holocaust" in this country was (0[1])documented (0[1])by Nobel (10[1])Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú and targeted (10[1])its Indigenous Maya people. (10[2]0[1])For 10 points, (0[1])name this Central American (10[1])country (10[1])once led by Jacobo Árbenz (10[1])that shares a long border with Mexico. ■END■ (10[12]0[1])

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