Guatemalan Revolution was the period in Guatemalan history between the popular uprising that overthrew dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944 and the United States-orchestrated coup d'etat in 1954 that overthrew the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz.
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Guatemalan Revolution appointed a three-person military junta to take his place, led by Federico Ponce Vaides.
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Guatemalan Revolution implemented a moderate program of social reform, including a widely successful literacy campaign and a largely free election process, although illiterate women were not given the vote and communist parties were banned.
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Guatemalan Revolution lobbied the US government for the overthrow of Arbenz, and the State Department responded by engineering a coup under the pretext that Arbenz was a communist.
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Guatemalan Revolution abolished the system of debt peonage, and replaced it with a vagrancy law, which required all men of working age who did not own land to perform a minimum of 100 days of hard labor.
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Guatemalan Revolution greatly strengthened the police force, turning it into one of the most efficient and ruthless in Latin America.
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Guatemalan Revolution permitted the US to establish an air base in Guatemala, with the stated aim of protecting the Panama Canal.
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Guatemalan Revolution later released the company from this obligation as well, citing the economic crisis.
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Guatemalan Revolution became a primary school teacher for a brief while, and then earned a scholarship to a university in Argentina, where he earned a doctorate in the philosophy of education.
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Guatemalan Revolution returned to Guatemala in 1934, and sought a position in the Ministry of Education.
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Guatemalan Revolution left the country and held a faculty position in Argentina until 1944, when he returned to Guatemala.
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Guatemalan Revolution held the belief that the only way to alleviate the backwardness of most Guatemalans was through a paternalistic government.
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Guatemalan Revolution was strongly opposed to classical Marxism, and believed in a capitalist society that was regulated to ensure that its benefits went to the entire population.
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Arevalo's ideology was reflected in the new constitution that the Guatemalan Revolution assembly ratified soon after his inauguration, which was one of the most progressive in Latin America.
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Guatemalan Revolution approached several leaders of democratic Central American countries, but was rejected by all except Castaneda Castro, the president of El Salvador.
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Guatemalan Revolution was opposed to handing over power to a civilian government, first seeking to postpone the 1944 election, and then to annul it.
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Guatemalan Revolution sought advice from numerous economists from across Latin America.
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Guatemalan Revolution supported Jorge Ubico in the leadership struggle that occurred from 1930 to 1932, and upon assuming power, Ubico expressed willingness to create a new contract with it.
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Guatemalan Revolution virtually owned Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's only port to the Atlantic Ocean, allowing the company to make profits from the flow of goods through the port.
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Guatemalan Revolution saw itself as being specifically targeted by the reforms, and refused to negotiate with the numerous sets of strikers, despite frequently being in violation of the new laws.
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The Guatemalan Revolution government responded by saying that the company was the main obstacle to progress in the country.
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Guatemalan Revolution had begun a public relations campaign to discredit the Guatemalan government; it hired public relations expert Edward Bernays, who ran a concerted effort to portray the company as the victim of the Guatemalan government for several years.
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Guatemalan Revolution stepped up its efforts after Dwight Eisenhower had been elected in 1952.
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Guatemalan Revolution'storians have stated that the report was full of "exaggerations, scurrilous descriptions and bizarre historical theories".
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