El comunismo costarricense, Árbenz y la reforma agraria (1951-1954)

Sofía Cortés Sequeira

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73069

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Costa Rican communism, Árbenz and the agrarian reform (1951-1954)

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Sofía Cortés Sequeira Universidad de Costa Rica https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3788-8985

2023: Número especial. El lugar de la cultura en las crisis y transformaciones sociales y políticas en la América Latina del siglo XXI. Construyendo saberes latinoamericanos e interdisciplinarios desde los estudios doctorales

https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73069

Abstract

This article aims to understand the ways in which the Partido Vanguardia Popular (PVP) read and used the political context developed in Guatemala under the government of Jacobo Árbenz Guzman (1954), and especially the enactment of the Agrarian Reform, to position itself in the national and regional political debate, after its defeat in the civil war of 1948. It also explores his vision of the role that Costa Rica and its foreign policy should play in this delicate regional context. This proposal aims to contribute to the study of the regional impacts of Árbenz's Guatemala, both during his heyday and his fall.

Keywords:

communism, agrarian reform, revolution, Cold War, Central America

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Cortés Sequeira, S. (2023). Costa Rican communism, Árbenz and the agrarian reform (1951-1954). Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 177–221. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2023.73069