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Reality shatters Guatemalan dream of peaceful modernization
Julio Herrera led Pantaleon estate through mechanization and cost cuts, but clashes with labor, union busting, and violent politics across Guatemala beset his plan. Evictions, layoffs, and two killings on the coastal estate culminated as unrest and war loomed, ending his reform hopes.
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Julio Herrera
Herrera
PNS
Julia Preston
Guatemala
Pantaleon
United States
Columbia University
Walter Widmann
Widmann
National Union Congress
CNT
United Nations
Romeo Lucas Garcia
el Salvador
Pantaleon Union