Guatemala, The Aftermath
The year 2004 marked the 50th anniversary of the CIA-orchestrated coup in Guatemala that overthrew the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in the name of U.S…
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Country: Guatemala
The United States and Guatemala
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The figure of Guatemala’s overthrown President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán powerfully illustrates lost hopes and dashed dreams, what could have been and wasn’t. It portrays, in essence, the life…
Age of Enlightenment?
When in the early 1980s President Ronald Reagan sought the restoration of direct military aid to Guatemala, he praised the country’s leader Efraín Ríos Montt as “a man of great personal…
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Engravings From the October Revolution (1944-1954)
In 1952, the Presidential Information Secretary through the initiative of Luis Cardoza y Aragón contracted the Mexican engraver Arturo García Bustos, to organize an engraving…
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Linchamientos: ¿barbarie o justicia popular?
If you have stumbled on one of those news stories telling how an angry mob turned a suspected criminal into a human torch in Guatemala and wondered how such medieval violence can take…
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