HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jorge Ubico, United Fruit Company, Francisco Javier Arana
22 Nov 2016
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3 million people, many were indigenous mayans who didn"t speak spanish: illiteracy rate at 70, intense concentration of land-holding. Many nazis moved to guatemala post wwii: many indigenous people were day labourers under horrendous working conditions. Small changes in prices had huge impacts on the economy: property/income taxes brought in less than 10, the rest was sales/consumer taxes. Regressive taxes: hard for the government to improve with such a poor tax system. As wwii was ending, there was a coup: partly by intellectuals, civil service, unionists, some military, ousted the government july 1st, 1944. Jorge ubico: depression-era dictator (1944) middle class, pre-democracy group. The ten years of spring : social, economic, political change. Spiritual socialism : christian humanism and socialism, if you work a full time job, you deserve a living wage, dignity of labour, charity, humanistic principles. Constitution of 1945: similar to the mexican constitution of 1917, included land reform. Constructive liberalism: abolished forced labour system.
