资产阶级民主革命与民主改革中美洲的危地马拉原是一个落後的、人口不过三百五十多万的小国。很久以来,半封建经济在这个国家占着统治地位,这种经济使农民陷於贫穷和饥饿,阻碍民族工业的发展(农村人口占全国人口的百分之八十)。这种情况替美国垄断资本的侵入准备了有利的条件。从上世纪末叶以来,美国垄断资本就在危地马拉建立了支配的地位。“联合水果公司”垄断着危 In the bourgeois democratic revolution and democratic reform, Guatemala in the Americas was originally a backward small country with a population of over 3.5 million. The semi-feudal economy has long dominated the country, an economy that has left farmers poor and hungry and hindered the development of the national industry (rural population, 80% of the national population). This situation provides favorable conditions for the invasion of the monopoly capital by the United States. Since the end of the last century, the monopoly capital of the United States has established a dominant position in Guatemala. “United Fruit Company” monopolizes the danger