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He was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, diplomat, and director of Guatemala’s national library for more than 20 years. Though Arévalo Martínez’s fame has waned, he is still considered important because of his short stories, and one in particular: The man who resembled a horse [ 1 ] and the biography of president Manuel Estrada ...
Manuel María Orellana Contreras (17 December 1870 in El Jícaro, Guatemala – 17 June 1940 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Guatemalan army officer and politician, and from 17 to 31 December 1930, de facto interim President of Guatemala, after leading a coup d'état that ended Baudilio Palma interim presidency.
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically bordered to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the northeast by the Gulf of Honduras.
Guillermo Flores Avendaño (17 June [citation needed] 1894 – 26 May 1982 [1] [2]) was a Guatemalan military officer who served as president of Guatemala from October 1957 to March 1958. In March 1957, he was designated as second in the presidential line of succession by Congress (preceded by Luis Arturo González López ). [ 3 ]
The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC, University of San Carlos of Guatemala) is the largest and oldest university of Guatemala; it is also the fourth founded in the Americas. Established in the Kingdom of Guatemala during the Spanish colony, it was the only university in Guatemala until 1954, [ a ] although it continues to hold ...
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, founded in 1966; Universidad Mariano Gálvez de Guatemala, founded in 1966; Universidad Francisco Marroquín, founded in 1971; Universidad Rural de Guatemala, founded in 1995; Universidad del Istmo, founded in 1997; Universidad Panamericana, founded in 1998; Universidad Mesoamericana, founded in 1999
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Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre [1] (5 May 1912 – 6 June 1981) [2] was a Guatemalan army officer who was President of Guatemala and leader of a military junta from 29 June 1954 to 8 July 1954, during the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. [3]