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Guatemala: Revolution, 1944-1954

(see also Guatemala, Guatemala: Ubico Regime & Guatemala: Civil War)


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Basics

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators

World Guide

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

D'Ascoli, Carlos A. "La reforma agraria y extensión de las explotaciones agrícolas," Trimestre Económico (México) 19,3 (7-9/52).

Handy, Jim. "'The most precious fruit of the Revolution': the Guatemalan Agrarian Reform, 1952-1954," Hispanic American Historical Review 68,4 (11/88):675-705.

James, Daniel. "Guatemala's warning to US business," Fortune 48 (7/53). United Fruit's perception of land reform program.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Aguilera Peralta, Gabriel Edgardo y Martha Elena Salguero. La política exterior de Guatemala durante el régimen de la "Revolución de Octubre" (1944-1954) (Guatemala: FLACSO, 1989).

Aragón, Oscar de León. Memorias de un estudiante del 44 (Guatemala: Universitaria, 2003).

Aybar de Soto, José M. Dependency & Intervention: The Case of Guatemala in 1954 (Boulder: Westview, 1978).

Cardoza y Aragón, Luís. Guatemala: las líneas de su mano (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1955).

Cullaher, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (Stanford: Stanford, 2000).

Ganugi, Andrea. Guatemala 1954: cronica di una morte annunciata (Firenze: Firenze Libre, 1989).

García Laguardia, Jorge Mario. La Revolución del 20 de octubre de 1944 (Guatemala: Procurador de los Derechos Humanos, 1994).

Gleijeses, Piero. Shattered Hope: the Guatemalan Revolution & the US, 1944-1954 (Princeton: Princeton, 1991).

Handy, Jim. Gift of the Devil: a History of Guatemala (Boston: South End, 1984).

__________. Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict & Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954 (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina, 1994).

Kennedy, Paul P. The Middle Beat: A Correspondent's View of Mexico, Guatemala & El Salvador (NY: Teacher's College, 1971).

Lapola, Gustavo E. (comp.) Guatemala: historia de una década (Guatemala: Estudiantil FENIX, 2004).

León Castillo, Oscar de (ed.) La revolución guatemalteca (Guatemala: Oscar de León Palacios, 1994).

Perera, Victor. Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood (London, 1986).

Schlesinger, Stephen & Stephen Kinzer. Bitter Fruit. The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala (N Y, 1982).

Streeter, Stephen M. Managing the Counter-Revolution: The US & Guatemala, 1954-1961 (Athens: Ohio U. Center for International Studies, 2000).

Tischler Visguerra, Sergio. Guatemala 1944, crisis y revolución: ocaso y quiebre de una forma estatal (Guatemala: U. de San Carlos, 1998).

Toriello Garrido, Guillermo. A Popular History of Two Revolutions: Guatemala & Nicaragua (trans. Rebecca Schwaner; San Francisco: Synthesis, 1985).

Villagran Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: los pactos políticos de 1944 a 1970 (Guatemala: FLACSO, 1993).

Villamar Contreras, Marco Antonio. Significado de la década 1944-54, conocida como la revolución guatemalteca de octubre (Guatemala, 1993).

In the Library: Fiction

Rodríguez Macal, Virgilio. Jinayá [1951] (Guatemala: Piedra Santa, 1989).

In the Library: For Young Readers

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"Devils Don't Dream" [1995], dir. Andrea Hoessli, 90m. From First Run/Icarus. Story of Jacobo Arbenz.

"El silencio de Neto" [1995?], dir. Luis Argueta, ?m. From Morningside Films. CIA-sponsored overthrow of Arbenz government as experienced by small boy in Guatemala City.



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