Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán:Group of answer choicesA) was a friend and close ally of Soviet premier Josef Stalin befo
re his death.B) was ousted by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet-friendly dictator.C) sought to reduce foreign corporations’ control over his country’s economy.D) appealed to President Eisenhower for military support to defeat a growing communist insurgency in Guatemala.
C) sought to reduce foreign corporations’ control over his country’s economy.
Explanation:
Jacobo Arbenz was a nationalist leader and a top military officer with strong social concerns in a country with enourmous social inequality and class differences. He became Guatemalan president in 1951, supported by the army and leftist parties. He instituted social and economic reforms to improve the situation of the poor, but this caused the disatisfaction of the conservative sectors such as the wealthy landowners and the top military officers. His policies that aimed to reduce the influence and control over Guatemalan economy by US big companies - like the United Fruit company - also displeased the American government. The Eisenhower administration deeply mistrusted his real intentions and came to believe he was a communist (he was not). Arbenz was overthrown by a military coup orchestrated by the CIA in 1954.
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