This country's independence movement was led by a man who enacted the Liberal Revolution and issued the "Plan for the Fatherland," Justo Rufino Barrios.
This country's independence movement was led by a man who enacted the Liberal Revolution and issued the "Plan for the Fatherland," Justo Rufino Barrios. A group of "October Revolutionaries" in this country overthrew the dictator Jorge Ubico and sparked the "Ten Years of Spring" by stepping aside and opening an election in which the former professor José Arévalo was elected. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu wrote an account of a civil war in this country, which included the burning of the Spanish embassy and was the longest civil war in Latin American history, running from 1960 to 1996. Manuel Estrada attempted to start a Cult of Minerva in this country, and one of its leaders was overthrown in the US backed Operation PBSUCCESS. That coup overthrew Jacobo Arbenz and was lobbied for by the United Fruit Company. For 10 points, name this Latin-American country.
This country's independence movement was led by a man who enacted the Liberal Revolution and issued the "Plan for the Fatherland," Justo Rufino Barrios.
{Guatemala}