Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán quotes

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as President of Guatemala. His reforms aimed to modernize the country and reduce the influence of large landowners, especially through agrarian reform. He was overthrown in a US-backed coup, which profoundly impacted Guatemala's history. Here are 2 of his quotes:

Our only crime consisted of decreeing our own laws and applying them to all without exception. Our crime is having enacted an agrarian reform which effected the interests of the United Fruit Company. Our crime is wanting to have our own route to the Atlantic, our own electric power and our own docks and ports. Our crime is our patriotic wish to advance, to progress, to win economic independence to match our political independence. We are condemned because we have given our peasant population land and rights. (Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán)
Unfortunately even the President of the United States of America has made little of his high office, and he too, either through lack of information or other reasons, has lent himself to the campaign of pressure and intimidation against Guatemala. View quote
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

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Born: September 14, 1913
Died: January 27, 1971
Quotes count: 2
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