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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.
Jorge Ubico Castañeda (10 November 1878 – 14 June 1946), nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as the president of Guatemala from 1931 to 1944.
[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 ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Terremoto en Guatemala (1978) Tierra madre (1996) ... Guatemalan film at the Internet Movie Database
Presidential elections were held in Guatemala between 17 and 19 December 1944. [1] The October Revolution had overthrown Jorge Ubico, the American-backed dictator, [2] after which a junta composed of Francisco Javier Arana, Jacobo Árbenz and Jorge Toriello took power, and quickly announced presidential elections, as well as elections for a constitutional assembly. [3]