Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctrinaire to the end, he charged that the United Fruit Co. of Boston (which lost 400,000 acres of land to Arbenz' agrarian reform program) had "tried to destroy our country" under the pretext of attacking Communism. He referred sorrowfully to the "overwhelming and tremendous means at the command of Guatemala's enemies." and signed...
...white dagger and cross of the "Liberation Movement." They fingered black burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket, with a .45 automatic jammed into the belt of his khaki pants...
...Communists and agrarian reformers who run Guatemala's government grabbed 233,973 acres of the United Fruit Co.'s best banana reserve lands at Tiquisate last year, and blandly offered the company $594,572 in 25-year government bonds as payment. The company, which values the land at $15,854,849, cried "confiscation," and asked the U.S. Government for help...
...fruits of the Communists' fertilizing friendship, Arbenz cited his. program of agrarian reform, "progress in reducing our dependence on foreign companies," happily shrinking foreign investments, a new "freedom in international policy" and "to top it all," the formation of a Communist Party, organized since his inaugural three years ago. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his Marxist comrades, the President then said what they presumably wanted him to say about the conference in Caracas. "It is entirely up to Guatemala to decide what form of democracy she must have . . . The real issue at the Inter American Conference should...
...China's reaction to this "spontaneous capitalism" was more socialization, more coercion. Peking radio announced last week that the first, far-famed "agrarian reform," which theoretically gave small plots to poor peasants to own and work for themselves, was now proving "unstable . . . weak . ... unable to weather natural calamities." Instead, the peasants' "individual economy" will be transformed along Russian lines: 35,800 collective farms will be set up before this year's harvest...