Land reform and re-employment of farmers

The companies then felled extensive tracts of rainforests in order to establish new plantations.After World War II,the dictatorships with which United Fruit had partnered in Guatemala and Honduras yielded to democratically elected governments that called for land reform.In Guatemala, President Jacobo Arbenz tried to buy back land from United Fruit and redistribute it to landless farmers.The Arbenz government offered to pay a price based on tax records—where United Fruit had underreported the value of the land.El Pulpo was not happy.