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  Bananas are, of course, a mainstay of the Guatemalan economy.  In 1954 the Eisenhower administration , the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. backed a coup in Guatemala by Colonel Castillo Armas against democratically-elected President Jacobo Arbenz, who had carried out a land reform program that led to major losses for the company.