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The president of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de Guatemala), officially titled President of the Republic of Guatemala (Spanish: Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term. The position of President was created in 1839.
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.
[1] [4] It was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, [5] making the shortlist of 15 films. [6] On 6 August 2020, the film premiered on the horror streaming service Shudder. [7] On October 18, 2022, the film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD.
On 3 July, Ponce Vaides forced the Guatemalan congress at gunpoint to appoint him interim president. [1] Ponce pledged to hold free elections soon, while at the same time suppressing the protests. [3] Freedom of the press was suspended, [3] arbitrary detentions continued, and memorial services for slain revolutionaries were prohibited. [4]
Presidential elections were held on 4 July 1944, which declared Ponce as the president. However, the opposition rejected the results, and as a result, on 20 October 1944, a group of young officers overthrew Ponce, creating a military-civilian government called the Revolutionary Government Junta.
The daughter of a Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide is running for president, raising questions about the nation's memory of a brutal civil war. A dictator's daughter runs for president ...
A list of films produced in Guatemala from the List of Latin American films: A ... (2020 film) Aquí me quedo (2010) Ave Fénix (1998) ... Guatemalan film at the ...
Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 [1] – 8 October 1990) was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945. He was elected following a popular uprising against the United States-backed dictator Jorge Ubico that began the Guatemalan Revolution .