Short answers, pulled from the story.
Decree 900 aimed to redistribute land from large owners to citizens without property. The law created a National Agrarian Department to oversee reappropriation and established Local Agrarian Committees to make decisions about land distribution.
By 1954, one hundred thousand families had received land along with bank credit and technical aid. This represented five hundred thousand individuals or one sixth of the country's population.
The Árbenz government expropriated approximately one hundred thousand acres from the United Fruit Company because it owned four million acres representing forty-two percent of the nation's arable land. The company received six hundred twenty-seven thousand five hundred seventy-two dollars in bonds for the expropriation based on previous year tax claims.
Carlos Castillo Armas became president on July 8th and quickly repealed Decree 900. He reversed ninety-five percent of the redistribution that had occurred during the previous eighteen months.
Indigenous people had been treated as subordinate for hundreds of years since the Spanish conquest and became increasingly impoverished and dependent on wages from plantation work. Many indigenous workers were required to serve as migrant laborers through legal coercion under a system that expanded rapidly as the coffee industry grew from the 1870s through the 1930s.