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Guatemala · Government / Government of Guatemala. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1952Date range
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Chronological records

1952

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman1952

Government / Government of Guatemala

Enacts an agrarian reform program modeled on the 1862 Homestead Act in the US, the new law gives the Government power to expropriate only uncultivated portions of large plantations

Names involved

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

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