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Breaking the Monopolies: Árbenz, the Atlantic Corridor, and the Coup That Rewrote Guatemala

Jacobo Árbenz did not try to build utopia. He tried to build a country that could set its own prices. His program—land reform backed by logistics—attacked the chokepoints that kept Guatemala poor: a foreign‑owned port, a foreign‑owned railway, and idle estates that treated peasants as labor.