Any time I start to get too trusting of people / government, or too dismissive of conspiracy theorists, I read something like this.
This is pretty evil.
This is pretty evil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%C3%A9tat
"The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala."