... Cold War foreign policies. In 1944, the "October Revolutionariries", a group of dissident military officers, students, and liberal professionals, overthrew General Jorge Ubico's Guatemalan dictatorship, thus, paving the way for the democratically elected leftist government of Juan Jose Arevalo. Arevalo quickly won broad support of the young liberal students and professionals alike, winning with 255,000 of 295,000 votes ... . Guzman confiscated unused arable land, some being the property of United Fruit, some from private landowners, all of it for the purpose of his redistribution plan. "...

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... Guzman confiscated unused arable land, some being the property of United Fruit, some from private landowners, all of it for the purpose of his redistribution plan. "Over 15 per cent of the 650,000 acres owned by UFCO were marked for expropriation with compensation to be paid in line with the company's 1950 tax declaration." In response to the land ... found to contain no influence of an outside communist agenda. Ironically, years after the counter-revolution "Castillo Armas new regime proved embarrassingly inept," creating a situation that would last for close to forty years. "By attain...

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