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Independence of Guatemala

Guatemala · Government / Government of Guatemala. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1951Date range
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Chronological records

1951

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman1951

Government / Government of Guatemala

Campaigns as a reformer and wins 60% of the vote by promising to make Guatemala an economically independent, capitalist state that would shed its colonial-era dependence on the US

Names involved

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

Provenance

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