1989
DOI: 10.1017/s0022216x00018514
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The Agrarian Reform of Jacobo Arbenz

Abstract: The cry for land is, without any doubt, the loudest, the most dramatic and the most desperate sound in Guatemala.’ So wrote the Guatemalan bishops in 1988. In their country's long history, the bishops stated, only one president – Jacobo Arbenz – had addressed the issue of land reform.1 Inaugurated in 1951, Arbenz presided over the most successful agrarian reform in the history of Central America. The reports of the US embassy bear testimony to the fact that within eighteen months land was distributed to 100,00… Show more

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“…Según Piero Gleijeses (1989), la influencia del PGT sobre Jacobo Arbenz, especialmente la de sus amigos Alfredo Guerra Borges, Mario Silva Jonama, Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez y José Manuel Fortuny (el secretario general del partido), es un dato crucial para entender la conspiración llevada a cabo en 1954 por Estados Unidos, que desencadenó el final del proceso revolucionario guatemalteco: "En ningún país de América Latina un presidente había tenido tanta cercanía al partido comunista como la tuvo Arbenz, en ningún país de América Latina un partido comunista había sido tan influyente como fue el PGT" (Gleijeses, 1989, p. 480). 3 A esto ayudó la compra de armas a Checoslovaquia en mayo de 1954, cuando ya se tenía conocimiento de la invasión militar a Guatemala y la prohibición de los Estados Unidos al mundo entero de vender armas a Guatemala (Perutka, 2014).…”
Section: El Golpe De Estado En Guatemala: 1954unclassified
“…Según Piero Gleijeses (1989), la influencia del PGT sobre Jacobo Arbenz, especialmente la de sus amigos Alfredo Guerra Borges, Mario Silva Jonama, Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez y José Manuel Fortuny (el secretario general del partido), es un dato crucial para entender la conspiración llevada a cabo en 1954 por Estados Unidos, que desencadenó el final del proceso revolucionario guatemalteco: "En ningún país de América Latina un presidente había tenido tanta cercanía al partido comunista como la tuvo Arbenz, en ningún país de América Latina un partido comunista había sido tan influyente como fue el PGT" (Gleijeses, 1989, p. 480). 3 A esto ayudó la compra de armas a Checoslovaquia en mayo de 1954, cuando ya se tenía conocimiento de la invasión militar a Guatemala y la prohibición de los Estados Unidos al mundo entero de vender armas a Guatemala (Perutka, 2014).…”
Section: El Golpe De Estado En Guatemala: 1954unclassified
“…In spite of the fairly significant forest area -at least 6 million hectares (RRI and ITTO 2009, ICF 2011, Procuradoria, Grupo Promotor 2009) out of the 18 million hectares with forest cover in the region (PROARCA 2005)under collective management regimes in Central America, research on these forests from the perspective of the common property school has been fairly limited. Rather, agricultural lands have been the primary interest of academics and practitioners in the region, probably due to the importance of agrarian issues: the limited availability of land for rural peasants, the colonial legacy of the latifundio-minifundio structure in Latin American history and the importance of these lands in the region's revolutionary movements (de Janvry 1989;Eckstein, S 2001;Enriquez 1991;Gauster and Isakson 2007;Gliejeses 1989). Hence these priorities have overshadowed research on forests commons and government policy (Thiesenhusen 1989), at least until recently Pacheco and Barry 2009).…”
Section: Commons Research In Central Americamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The land tenure systems found there today are the result of hundreds of years of history, characterized in the colonial and post-colonial eras predominantly by the usurpation of indigenous lands by more powerful actors (Cambranes 2004;Elías et al 2009). The liberal governments of the 19 th century were expressly interested in suppressing communal land tenure, and many indigenous communities were forced to sell or rent their land to private farmers or to transfer their rights to municipal governments (Elías et al 2009;Gliejeses 1989). Beginning in the 1950s, over three decades of a brutal war weakened community organizations, and the abandonment of villages facilitated the usurpation of land (Lartigue 1993).…”
Section: Nature and Origins Of The Commonsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These omissions belie other absences in Thurow's story of chronic hunger. Not once in his discussion of Guatemala's entrenched poverty does he mention his own government, which has spent decades squashing any grassroots‐led attempts to alleviate poverty in Guatemala (Gleijeses 1989). Nor does he mention the role that US journalists have played in upending what had been a peaceful land reform by repeating false narratives about the growing threat of communism (Curtis 2002; Grandin 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%