Which type of policies made U.S. leaders believe that Jacobo Árbenz, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, was a communist sympathizer?

Árbenz’s land reform program redistributed large, unused estates to landless farmers, including land owned by the U.S.-based United Fruit Company. U.S. leaders and the company portrayed this policy as evidence of communist influence, even though land reform by itself did not make Árbenz a communist. The correct choice is “Árbenz’s land reform policies.”

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