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the beginning.
killed Jose Maria Reyna Barrios and assumes the presidency a minister called manueljose estrada cabrera thanks to the apollo of a United company united fruit company, he created lanes for the export of this company. -
the crisis.
a popular rebellion declares to estrada cabrera inano and they force him to resign after this a period of political instability that lasts 10 years and recuren to voting opens. -
1931 a new dictatorship.
Assumes with great popular apollo the only candidate of the pro-bias liberal party General Jorge Ubico. A large part of the population sees it as very positive to get the country out of the crisis. by then, the largest fruit company was the largest exporter. -
1937
Ubico reforma la constitutcion y es electop por 6 años. -
the reaction.
Ubico is chosen for the third time thanks to a servile congress. One year later students and teachers demand university autonomy for the threat of going to a general strike Ubico responds by closing the university, this causes that on June 24 they ask for the resignation of and the next day the general strike against the dictatorship is declared. -
the revolution
the community looks for the military to defeat ponce Valles hasata to achieve it and that is what they get. That's when a government junta is formed that immediately calls for elections and remains as president Arevalo Garmejo -
the great reform
to this date assumes the presidency jacobo arbenz guzman orders large infrastructure projects and moves the industralization of the country.