https://youtube/watch?v=-XrWFtd7awU A little history of what happened during those years in Guatemala. XX century The United Fruit Company began to become the major force in Guatemala in 1901 during the long dictatorial presidency of Manuel Estrada Cabrera. The government is often subordinated to the interests of the Company (a leading Central and that US aid had power to change democratic governments by puppets to its service). While the company helped with the construction of some schools also hampering local trade; well, opposed to road construction because this would compete with their monopoly of the railroad. The UFC controlled more than 40% of the countrys land and port facilities. This situation would remain so until 1944. Was post revolution In 1944, the Revolutionary October, a group of dissident military officers, students, and professionals, overthrew the government of Federico Ponce Valdes, who had succeeded in command by General Jorge Ubico, after he in turn had left the power in the context of social struggles for autonomy state University. In 1945, to replace the Provisional Revolutionary Junta, was democratically elected civilian president, Juan José Arévalo, who held the presidency until 1951. Reforms initiated by the government of Jacobo Arbez Guzmán (1953) applied the 900 decree or agrarian reform which, although initially had a purpose to help the poor peasantry, ended up being a tool of the government to attack the countrys agricultural sector and multinationals such as United Fruit Company -a company that actually controlled Guatemala, and who owned thousands of acres of land unused. Example of suppression and aggression against civilians during this time was death at the military base of Aurora on November 5, 1950, university students moved by the army, the Catholic Church and the landowners protested against Arevalo. Social reforms initiated by Arevalo were continued by his successor, Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Arbenz advocated social and political reforms, allowed the syndication of workers and began an agrarian reform agreed with the communist party PGT to remedy the extreme inequality in land distribution in 1945 2% of the population controlled 70% of all land fertile but only grew 12%, ie maintained a 82% wasteland. [1] the expropriation of the landowners of the multinational American frutera UFC made the CIA considered to Guatemala as Soviet position [2] and financed and trained an army led by the exiled rebel Carlos Castillo Armas invaded the country from Honduras and Salvador and overthrew Arbenz in the 1954 coup.
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