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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.
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 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 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 ...
Many movies and TV shows have portrayed real US presidents played by Hollywood actors. Daniel Day-Lewis shared a striking resemblance to Abraham Lincoln in the 2012 film "Lincoln."
The president has accused Trump, who sought to overturn Biden's victory in the 2020 election, as threatening U.S. democracy. (Reporting by Jeff MasonEditing by Bernadette Baum) Show comments