Organization

Government of Guatemala

The government of Guatemala.

5 links, 5 backed by primary records

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Guatemala’s agrarian reform, 1952 17 Jun 1952 passed Decree 900, the Agrarian Reform Law, on 17 June 1952 Primary record 2

Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after the CIA history says Castillo Armas’s police “concentrated on arresting thousands of peasants who tried to remain on the land granted them by Decree 900” Primary record 1
Guatemala’s armed conflict the Commission concluded that agents of the State, in counterinsurgency operations in 1981–1983, committed acts of genocide Primary record 3

Timeline 2 dates

Proof 3 sources

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Jacobo Arbenz elected president.
Arbenz capitulates.
installing Colonel Castillo Armas in his place.
Castillo Armas restored many of the company's privileges
concentrated on arresting thousands of peasants who tried to remain on the land granted them by Decree 900.
Introduction, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Guatemala, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 2003. Primary record
When he assumed office in early 1951
on June 17, 1952, the bill was passed and President Arbenz promulgated Decree 900, the Agrarian Reform Law.
Guatemala: Memory of Silence. Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification: Conclusions and Recommendations, Commission for Historical Clarification, 1999. Primary record
agents of the State of Guatemala, within the framework of counterinsurgency operations carried out between 1981 and 1983, committed acts of genocide against groups of Mayan people which lived in the four regions analysed.

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