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forced to work on these fields under
Jorge Ubico’s government.
Jorge Ubico was a fascist that
admired Hitler. He believed in a
strong dictatorship that should
get rid of all the opponents. He
let landowners kill the workers to
his government. After the New York discipline them if they committed
Stock Exchange crashed in 1929, something wrong. He also gave a lot
he forced the peasants to work. He of land to the United Fruit Company
needed coffee to be produced as well and allowed the U.S. Military to
as fruits to be raised for the United establish bases in Guatemala. The
Food Company. All the workers indigenous population could not live
that had any kind of debt would be as human beings during his reign.
