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President of the Guatemalan left expropriated 84,000 hectares of the United Fruit Company

71
years ago

04 March 1953,

Guatemala President Jacobo Arbenz expropriated 84,000 hectares that the United Fruit Company had assumed. In June the following year, a group of mercenaries removed Arbenz from power. John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen, director of the CIA, were shareholders of the UFC, the representative state of the United States.

Source:

Hernando Calvo Ospina (Le Monde Diplomatique en español, February 2009).

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