It seems likely that Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, president of Guatemala, turned to the Soviet Union for military aid because
A) the Soviet Union would sell him weapons without any restrictions on how those weapons would be used.
B) he was working under the direction of the Kremlin to create a Soviet-dominated empire in Central America.
C) Moscow would extend credit to Arbenz for weapons' purchases, but such purchases from the United States were on a cash-and-carry basis.
D) the United States was hostile to his government and its policies.
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