LEGAL 392T Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Maya Civilization, United Fruit Company
6 Mar 2017
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Argentina case questions: ~500 disappeared children in detention centers. Adopted because the military wasn"t supposed to be pregnant/couldn"t get pregnant: civilian government in power, history of democracy made the truth commission more effective. United states interest in guatemala parts/land of guatemala was owned by the us. History: thriving mayan civilization, colonial independence, three clear classes. Majority: 1525: colonizers came from spain, under spanish rule for 300 years, united fruit company/banana fruit company. Came to guate and was offered in the 1930s tens of thousands acres of land. Owned the railroad: 1930s ubico"s brutal dictatorship, ge. Miguel ydigoras fuentes assumed power in 1958 following the murder of. Immediately placed the country under a state of siege, giving the military more control over civilians. A series of military-dominated gov escalated violence against guerrilla groups and indigenous communities. Possibly sympathetic to communists: breaks down the infrastructures afraid. Guate gov for thousands of illegal executions and missing persons in the.
