SPAN 44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United Fruit Company, United States Marine Corps, Land Consumption
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The region devoted itself to an intensive agricultural economy. And some other crops such as cotton. This is referred to in menchu"s writings. One of the elements that will explain why it came to such an eruption of violence in the. They had very sacred development of industry, that weren"t agricultural. The problem of this economic model, was that most of the economic production was based on agriculture. The land is concentrated in very few hands. Really the economic landscape hasn"t changed that much. A population of people who worked in agriculture who did not have access to their own land. If they did have a plot of land it was very tiny. Many of those people had to work somewhere else. The big coffee estates, banana estates or cotton estates. Higher class in guatemala are usually white. The lower classes are poor, they are excluded from political realms and economical realms. Most of the lower classes were indigenous people.
