HIST 1500 Lecture Notes - United Fruit Company, Armed Forces Of Guatemala, Costa Rica
29 Apr 2013
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Consists of guatemala, honduras, el salvador, costa rica, belize, and nicaragua. Costa rica is most educated out of central american countries. Us has conducted military action in central america since 1821. The biggest landowner was the united fruit company (now chiquita). 2% of population owned 90% of the land. Much of the native owned land was rented out to the us. Land reform was a big issue in central. He admired the soviets for their defeat of the germans. Land reform he broke up huge estates and started to give away pieces of land to peasants. The united fruit co went to the eisenhower administration and said the communists were taking over the country. It took the land away from all the large landowners. Gave large estate owners a tax break and the govt issued bonds to the landowners. Modeled around american policy in japan after wwii. Eisenhower admin started to think about getting rid of arbenz.
