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Guatemalan Revolution
1954 Guatemalan coup d'étatIn 1823, U.S. President James Monroe declared that the Western Hemisphere was off-limits to European colonization. This policy aimed to protect American…
Carlos Castillo ArmasCarlos Castillo Armas was born on the 4th of November 1914 in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa. He grew up as the son of a landowner but remained out of wedlock and…
Jacobo ÁrbenzIn 1932, Jacobo Árbenz entered the Polytechnic School of Guatemala as a cadet. He was twenty years old and had just lost his family's fortune when his father…
United Fruit CompanyIn 1899, a merger in Boston created the United Fruit Company. The deal combined Minor C. Keith's Central American railroads with Lorenzo Dow Baker's…
Decree 900In 1952, Guatemala held a stark contradiction. The nation boasted a high gross domestic product, yet the distribution of its wealth remained deeply fractured.