\\In Blood Reigns in the Caribbean, Aaron Cowie Moulton argues that the CIA's Operations BB Fortune and BB Success emerged from tireless efforts by dictators, reactionaries, United Fruit Company, and British intelligence to silence the anti-fascist and anti-colonial voices that emerged from the Guatemalan Revolution.\\In 1952, a coalition of dictators and reactionaries in the Caribbean convinced the Truman administration to support a plot that turned into the CIA's Operation BB Fortune, the first U.S. government-backed plot against the government of Guatemala. As Moulton shows, this operation failed because American officials did not understand the network of forces involved.
In 1953, the Eisenhower administration approved Operation PBSUCCESS.This time, the CIA was more understanding of the dynamics of the Caribbean. The destruction of democracy in Guatemala was the result of the US government's use of its resources and the efforts of numerous reactionary forces.
Caribbean Blood Covenants shows how the transnational counterrevolution against the Guatemalan revolution became a lesson for those who spent the following decades fighting the region's Cold War dictatorships, from the Cuban revolution to the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.
