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Cuatemala's War
Obliged by falling exports scarlet by the appearance of artificial red dyes, the government of Justo Rufino Barrios laborers set regulations to promote the cultivation of coffee, which became the main export of Guatemala. The regulations forced the Indians to work practically for free on coffee farms settlers. -
Guatemala's War
The Guatemalan president Jose Maria Reyna Barrios invests a lot of money in the conduct of the American Exhibition, which aimed to promote the inter-oceanic railway being built in Guatemala. Unfortunately, the railroad was not completed on time, and the exhibition was a resounding failure that left Guatemala submerged in a huge foreign debt, mainly with British banks. The railroad was completed ten years later, but by then the United States had already achieved the separation of Panama -
Guatemala's War
United States begins construction of the Panama Canal and to maintain a peaceful environment in Central America encourages its companies to invest in the area. The presence of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala Thus began. President Manuel Estrada Cabrera promotes relations with the United States as a possible ally if a British military invasion of Guatemala is produced to collect the debt he left his predecessor, General Reyna Barrios. -
Guatemala's War
1914 Se inicia la Primera Guerra Mundial.
1917 Triunfa la Revolución Bolchevique en Rusia, dando origen al Comunismo Internacional.
1918 Finaliza la Primera Guerra Mundial, resultando vencedores Inglaterra, Francia y los Estados Unidos. -
Guatemala's War
Guatemala's Civil War-or internal armed conflict as recently-given call was a long war waged in the Central American country between 1960 and 1996 within the framework of the Cold War between the capitalist bloc and the United States communist bloc of the Soviet Union, which had a great impact in this American country in economic and political terms and deepened the polarization of Guatemalan society.