Jacobo Arbenz Guzman1952
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
Guatemala · Government / Government of Guatemala. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
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
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