Arbens Was Never a Communist, Was He?

The plan was to give land to landless peasants. In a way, you are creating more property owners an also, they were taking land from united fruit. The communist party in guatemala was miniscule. One of the reasons for panic was that one of the members of the communist party was an adviser to arbens. It's kind of like the connections between selicon valley and washington now,. There's a kind of rent seeking that we would call corruption in a latin american country, but is just sort of institutionalized in the united states.