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Shattered hope : the Guatemalan revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 /

The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Pi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gleijeses, Piero (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : witnesses
  • The era of Ubico
  • The presidency of Juan José Arévalo
  • The death of Francisco Arana
  • The election of Jacobo Arbenz
  • The United States and Arévalo : Arévalo's sins
  • The United States and Arévalo : the U.S. response
  • The world of Jacobo Arbenz
  • The agrarian reform
  • The revolutionary forces
  • The "Christian" opposition
  • The international conspiracy against Guatemala
  • The Caracas conference
  • The agony of the regime
  • The fall of Arbenz
  • Conclusion
  • The fate of the defeated.