People from Quetzaltenango - Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Rolando Moran, Otto Rene Castillo, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Rodolfo Robles (Paperback)

Chapters: Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Rolando Moran, Otto Rene Castillo, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Rodolfo Robles, Carlos Navarrete Caceres, Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Manuel Barillas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (Spanish pronunciation: September 14, 1913 January 27, 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician. He served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944 - 1951. He served as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. He was ousted in a coup d'etat in which the United States government was complicit and was replaced by a military junta, headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo. He went into exile after the coup and died in Mexico in 1971. Born in Quetzaltenango, he was the son of a Swiss pharmacist who immigrated to Guatemala. His early years were marred by his father's suicide. Arbenz joined the army, attending Guatemala's military academy, and became a sub-lieutenant in 1935. He returned to the Guatemalan Military Academy in 1937 and served as a teacher of science and history. In 1939 he met his future wife Maria Cristina Villanova, who moved her husband towards socialist philosophy. Maria, a daughter of a wealthy Salvadoran landowner, had a huge impact on his life, and urged him to overthrow the Guatemalan government. Arbenz joined a group of army officers and helped to overthrow the dictator Jorge Ubico (18781946) in 1944. After the coup against Ubico, Arbenz served as Guatemala's defense minister in Juan Jose Arevalo's new government. In March 1951, Arbenz assumed the presidency after Guatemala's second-ever universal-suffrage election, marking the first peaceful transition of power in Guatemala's history. He campaigned as a reformer and garnered 60% of the vote by promising to make Guatemala an economic...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=170713