Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán:Group of answer choicesA) was a friend and close ally of Soviet premier Josef Stalin before his death. B) was ousted by the KGB and replaced with a Soviet-friendly dictator. C) sought to reduce foreign corporations’ control over his country’s economy. D) appealed to President Eisenhower for military support to defeat a growing communist insurgency in Guatemala.

The right choice is:

C) sought to reduce foreign corporations’ control over his country’s economy.

Explanation:

Jacobo Arbenz was a nationalist leader and a top military officer with strong social concerns in a country with enourmous social inequality and class differences. He became Guatemalan president  in 1951, supported by the army and leftist parties. He instituted social and economic reforms to improve the situation of the poor, but this caused the disatisfaction of the conservative sectors such as the wealthy landowners and the top military officers. His policies that aimed to reduce the influence and control over Guatemalan economy by US big companies - like the United Fruit company - also displeased the American government. The Eisenhower administration deeply mistrusted his real intentions and came to believe he was a communist (he was not). Arbenz was overthrown by a military coup orchestrated by the CIA in 1954.

the underground railroad (apocope of the metropolitan railroad) is a system of urban trains located within a city and its metropolitan area. it is characterized for being a massive transport of passengers in the big cities, uniting diverse zones and their environs, with high capacity and frequency and in segregated form to other systems of transport. metropolitan railroads are built underground or on the surface, although most systems use mixed models where sections are combined in both modalities.

1 - as a result, the metro tends to reduce car travel for two reasons: first, due to the greater transfer of users from the car and, second, due to the reduction in the acquisition of cars in homes located in sectors near the stations of the metro.

2 -the metro allows to contribute effectively to the achievement of all the objectives of an urban development policy: it improves the efficiency of the city's economy by reducing travel costs and also generates a higher level of activities in the city center, taking advantage of of the agglomeration economies.

3 -it is a clean means of transport, since it uses renewable energy (usually electricity), taking care of the environment and avoiding excessive pollution.