Santa Rosa Department (Guatemala) - Municipalities of the Santa Rosa Department (Guatemala), People from Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Municipalities of the Santa Rosa Department (Guatemala), People From Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, Juan Jos Arvalo, Guazacapn, Casillas, Chiquimulilla, Cuilapa, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, San Juan Tecuaco, Oratorio, Santa Rosa, Taxisco, Barberena, Nueva Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz Naranjo, Santa Mara Ixhuatn, San Rafael Las Flores, Pueblo Nuevo Vias. Excerpt: Juan Jos Arvalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 8 October 1990) was the first of the reformist presidents of Guatemala. Preceded by military junta interregnum after a definitive pro-democracy revolt in 1944. Arvalo's 1944 election is considered by historians the first fair and democratic election in Guatemala's republican history; since independence from Spain, the country had seen a series of dictatorships. Arvalo served as President from 15 March 1945 to 15 March 1951. Arvalo's administration was marked by unprecedented relatively free political life during his six year term. Arvalo, an educator and philosopher, understood the need for enlargement in individuals, communities, and nations of the concept and praxis of what is possible. Before his presidency, Arvalo had been an exiled university professor. He returned to Guatemala to help in the reconstructive efforts of the new post-Ubco government, especially in the areas of social security and drafting of a new Constitution. His philosophy of "spiritual socialism," referred to as Arevalsmo, may be considered less an economic system than a movement toward the liberation of the imagination of oppressed Latin America. In the post-World War II period, internationalist players such as the United States regarded Arevalsmo socialism as Communism, and therefore cause for unease and alarm, which garne... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=554431