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Revolution of the 1944
Created by
Daniela Mejia
⟶ Updated 10 Jul 2018 ⟶
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Events
THE BIGGINING
Guatemala is a place with just three million inhabitants
It this year he dies assassinated in strange circumstance the president Jose Maria Reina Barrios and a government minister Manuel Jose Estrada Cabrera assumes the presidency thanks to the company Unit Fruit Company
Rafael Cabrera builds ports, roads and railways that benefit the Unit Fruit Company
The crisis
A popular rebellion declares Cabrera mentally insane and forces him to resign.
until the great depression of the United States hits Guatemala and forces a so-called elections
After this long dictatorship a period of political instability that lasts ten years
A new dictatorship
He assumes with great popular support the only candidate of the progressive liberal party General Jorge Ubico Castañeda
the population looked at him capable of removing them from the crisis but he soon promulgates the law against vagrancy
reduces expenses, decreasing the salary of the public sector by forty percent and permanently prohibits any salary increase
the fruit company has almost total control of international communications, is the owner of the port neighborhoods the most important in the country
SS Abangarez The steam boat of the Unit Fruit Company
USS Taurus Refrigerator boat of the Unit Fruit Company
Advertising notice steam boat line of the Unit Fruit Company
The reaction
Ubico is elected for the third time thanks to a servile congress
a year later, students demand university autonomy with the threat of going to a general strike
the new president at Arévalo Bermejo
Ponce resignation
The revolution
they all come together to defeat Ponce
For all its infrastructures it receives the support of the people
Árbenz expropriates foreign companies mainly the Unit Fruit Company and the reform becomes one of the deepest in Latin America
On March 15, the new candidate of the renovation party Jacobo Árbenz assumes the presidency
A revolution supported by teachers, students, politicians, workers and military trying to overcome the old inequalities seems to see triumphant
The great reform