Guatemala: 1954

1951

-Guzman redistributed 160000 acres of land owned by the United Fruit Company (Chiquita's) and gave it to pheasants.

-United Fruit had 42% of the country's land.

-They didn't have to pay any taxes on imports or exports.

Operation PBSUCCESS- The CIA operation to overthrow the communist President of Guatemala, Jacob Arbenz Guzman, and get back the United Fruit Company's land he took away.

-Arbenz fled to Cuba and Colonel Castillo Armas rose to power.

-He returned all the land back to the United Fruit Company.

-United Fruit Company had to then start paying taxes for imports and exports.

January, 1968

-2,800 intellectuals, students, trade union leaders, and pheasants were murdered by terrorists.

-Police and security forces weren't held responsible anymore for homocides.

-Plantation owners had the power of high officers to keep people away from the land.

-Owners had guns, which they used forcefully.

-Of the 70,000 people that were killed in this time period, 30,000 were children.

-Infant mortality was 40 times higher than the U.S.

-About 120,000 people were killed in the Civil War.

-Security forces had killed about 65,000 people.

-Almost half the population was unemployed.

-40,000 people have "dissappeared".