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Jorge Ubico , 1878-1946, president of Guatemala (1931-44). An army general, Ubico as president established financial stability and political order. He built an extensive network of roads and modernized local administrations to include increased health and school facilities. His methods, however, were authoritarian. He sternly suppressed opposition and twice engineered constitutional changes to extend his term of office. His efficient and honest but tyrannical rule ended when he was driven into exile by a democratic revolution following the revolt in Salvador that deposed Maximiliano Hernández Martínez .

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	Augusto Monterroso: lo breve, si bueno, se extiende a la memoria. (Cultura). Magazine article from: Proceso; 2/16/2003
	En Guatemala, la paz descansa sobre la amnesia y la miseria. (evaluación sobre el compromiso de paz firmado en este país)(TT: In Guatemala, peace rests on amnesia and misery) (TA: evaluation of the peace process signed in this country) Magazine article from: Proceso; 1/5/1997
	Guatemala 1954: las culpas de la CIA. (Internacional).(desclasificación de documentos de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos que supuestamente prueban su intervención en derrocamiento del presidente Jacobo Arbenz ) Magazine article from: Proceso; 6/8/2003

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