Question

Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán:

a.appealed to President Eisenhower for military support to defeat a growing communist insurgency in Guatemala.

b.sought to reduce foreign corporations' control over his country's economy.

c.was ousted by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet-friendly dictator.

d.was a friend and close ally of Soviet premier Josef Stalin before his death.

e.was born in Moscow and became a nationalist after emigrating to Guatemala.

Answer 1

b.sought to reduce foreign corporations' control over his country's economy.

Step-by-step explanation:

Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was the military officer and politician that served his country in the 1951 -1954. He was a prominent figure in the Guatemalan revolution as a result of his view towards moving his country towards representative democracy rather than communism.

His views could be seen in his agragan reform program which he initiated where by Lands were transferred and redistributed to over 500,000 families in his country. This was done inorder to help the Guatealans find diginty and autonomy as well as increase agricultural cultivation.

This simple action of his angered the Landowners (United Fruit Company) who see it as a threat to the investement.

Answer 2

b.sought to reduce foreign corporations' control over his country's economy

Step-by-step explanation:

Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán served as the 25th president of Guatemalafrom 1951 to 1954, He reduced the control of foreign corporation's in his country's economy and was later overthrown by CIA.