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While Guatemala has made efforts to move beyond its past, the country still remains extremely divided. By 1984, the large-scale massacres were generally over, the army had set up new bases throughout the Mayan heartlands and had accrued unprecedented economic power through the seizure of vast tracts of productive land and a number of key state ...
Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004. Political handbook of the world 1951. New York, 1952. Gleijeses, Piero. 1991. Shattered hope. The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Rodríguez de Ita, Guadalupe ...
The Guatemalan Civil War was a civil war in Guatemala which was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and there were widespread human rights violations against civilians. [15]
The National Anthem of Guatemala (Spanish: Himno Nacional de Guatemala) [a] was an initiative of the government of General José María Reina Barrios. [b] Its music was composed by Rafael Álvarez Ovalle [] and its original lyrics written by Cuban poet and diplomat José Joaquín Palma, in the context of the cultural and industrial event Exposición Centroamericana of 1897.
Guatemala: Los Altos: Victory. Los Altos is re-annexed to Guatemala [1] Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901) Mexico Yucatán Guatemala British Honduras: Maya: Victory. Republic of Yucatán rejoins the United Mexican States in 1848; Mayas achieve an independent state from 1847 to 1883; Mexico recaptures Yucatán; Los Altan Revolts (1844,1847-1849 ...
A page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, showing a Spanish conquistador accompanied by Tlaxcalan allies and a native porter. The sources describing the Spanish conquest of Guatemala include those written by the Spanish themselves, among them two of four letters written by conquistador Pedro de Alvarado to Hernán Cortés in 1524, describing the initial campaign to subjugate the Guatemalan Highlands.
The period in the history of Guatemala between the coups against Jorge Ubico in 1944 and Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 is known locally as the Revolution (Spanish: La Revolución).It has also been called the Ten Years of Spring, highlighting the peak years of representative democracy in Guatemala from 1944 until the end of the civil war in 1996.
The Ministry of National Defence (Spanish: Ministerio de la Defensa de la Nación) is the agency of the Guatemalan government responsible for the budget, training and policy of the military of Guatemala. Based in Guatemala City, the Defence Ministry is highly guarded, and the President of Guatemala frequently visits.