Guatemala's Communist-coddling, capitalist-baiting left-wing regime has shown Guatemalans time & again that an avowedly pro-labor government can be a harsh employer. Since Jacobo Arbenz, hand-picked successor of fuzzy "Spiritual Socialist" Juan José Arévalo, took over as President last March, five groups of government employees have gone out on strike for a fairer deal.
One glaring example of how poorly bureaucratic enterprise in Guatemala does by its workers is the government farm system, which accounts for nearly a third of the country's agricultural production (mostly coffee, bananas and sugar). The top basic wage is 46¢ a day, compared...
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