Names like the Duvaliers of Haiti, the Somoza dynasty of Nicaragua, and
Jorge Ubico of Guatemala epitomize the reality of military rule, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in an effort to suppress left-wing dissent and indigenous as well as Afro-Latin American activism.
After decades of elite domination and military rule, the Guatemalan people began a democratic experiment in 1944 after the overthrow of dictator
Jorge Ubico. In 1954, the Guatemalan military, with the support of the U.S.
The military rule of President
Jorge Ubico, who took office in 1931, grew increasingly dictatorial, in 1944, he was ousted in a democratic revolution.
Esta obra se basa supuestamente en la dictadura y el derrocamiento de
Jorge Ubico, dictador de Guatemala (1931-1944) y se convierte en una critica radical de una sociedad farsante y exploradora en la cual todos son complices del sistema opresivo.
The US intervention ended a period in Guatemala known as the "Ten Years of Spring," which began with the overthrow of the dictator
Jorge Ubico and the election, first, of Juan Jose Arevalo in 1944, and then, in 1950, of Jacobo Arbenz.
In a crisp, succinct introduction, Reed and Brandow situate the labour movement in the overall scheme of things, from its beginnings in the 1920s "among craftspeople and railroad, banana, and port workers" through its repression during the strong-arm presidency of General
Jorge Ubico (1930-1944) to its flourishing under the democratically elected governments of Juan Jose Arevalo and Jacobo Arbenz Guzman between 1944 and 1954.
He gives a tendentious history of the country--purest Langley boilerplate, circa 1955--but omits the crucial 1931-44 dictatorship of
Jorge Ubico.
The first began in 1944, when liberal forces overthrew the dictatorship of
Jorge Ubico. A reformer Juan Jose Arevalo was elected president and was succeeded in 1951 by Col.