The United States helped overthrow Guatemalan President Guzman in the early 1950s because

The United States supported the 1954 coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán because US officials viewed him as a communist sympathizer, especially amid his land reforms and Cold War fears. The choice that matches this reason is “he was suspected of being a communist sympathizer.”

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