Árbenz's land reformpolicies made US leaders believe that Jacobo binned the democratically elected president of Guatemala as a communist sympathizer.
Arbenz has made land reform a central project of his administration. This led to a clash with the United States-based United Fruit Company, the country's largest landowner with vacant lots he was trying to expropriate. He also insisted that the company and other landowners pay more taxes.
Land reform is a change in the land ownership system, especially to give land to those who actually cultivate it and to deprive those who own vast land for profit. A new land reform policy aimed at resetting thousands of farmers.