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National Liberation Movement (Guatemala)
The National Liberation Movement (, MLN) was a Guatemalan political party formed in 1954 by Carlos Castillo Armas. The party served as political platform for the military junta. History The MLN was founded as the National Democratic Movement (, MDN) in 1954 by President Carlos Castillo Armas. It was the ruling party from 1954 until 1958. The party supported the government of President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1958–1963).Ameringer, Charles D''Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992p. 347.. The 1963 coup that saw the government of Ydígoras Fuentes overthrown led to the MLN becoming the main party of the military. Although they were not successful in the presidential election of 1964 their candidate in 1970, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, was elected President, in coalition with the Institutional Democratic Party (Spanish: ''Partido Institucional Democrático'', PID). Victory was also secured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Romeo Lucas García
Fernando Romeo Lucas García (4 July 1924 – 27 May 2006) was a military officer and politician who served as the 37th president of Guatemala from July 1, 1978, to March 23, 1982. He was elected as the nominee for the Institutional Democratic Party (with the support of the Revolutionary Party). During Lucas García's regime, tensions between the radical left and the government increased. The military started to murder political opponents while counterinsurgency measures further terrorized populations of poor civilians. Franja Transversal del Norte The first settler project in the FTN was in Sebol-Chinajá in Alta Verapaz. Sebol, then regarded as a strategic point and route through the Cancuén River, which communicated with Petén through the Usumacinta River on the border with Mexico, and the only road that existed was a dirt one built by President Lázaro Chacón in 1928. In 1958, during the government of General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, the Inter-American Develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Guatemalan Coup D'état
The 1963 Guatemalan coup d'état was a successful US-backed power grab in Guatemala by the Guatemalan military, led by Colonel Enriuqe Peralta Azurdia, which ousted the Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes administration. The military junta headed by the colonel governed the country until the restoration of civilian rule in 1966, peacefully handing power to Julio César Méndez Montenegro on July 1. Motives The coup's aims, instigated and supported by the Kennedy administration, were not to depose democratically elected President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, a dedicated anti-Communist, but instead to prevent the imminent electoral victory of Juan José Arévalo in the upcoming November elections, who was perceived to be a Communist. In a meeting held by US President John F. Kennedy and his top advisers, the American Ambassador to Guatemala John O. Bell advocated for a coup against the Latin-American country, insisting that Arévalo's election must be prevented at any cost. His view was oppose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Guatemalan General Election
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and regent * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Reformist Movement
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (''Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario'', MNR) was a Honduran political party. It was formed when moderate members of the National Party of Honduras (''Partido Nacional de Honduras'', PNH) split from the party after Tiburcio Carías Andino secured the PNH nomination for the 1954 Honduras presidential election. The MNR nominee for president that year was former vice president Abraham Williams Calderón Abraham Williams Calderón (born 1894, died in 1986) was a Honduran politician. He was known as Vice President of Honduras during the administration of Tiburcio Carías Andino and president of the National Congress of Honduras, and presidential ...; he received approximately 53,000 of 260,000 votes. See also * List of political parties in Honduras References *Library of Congress Honduras country study Defunct political parties in Honduras {{Honduras-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Squad
A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror. Except in rare cases in which they are formed by an insurgency, domestic or foreign governments actively participate in, support, or ignore the death squad's activities. Death squads are distinguished from assassination groups by their permanent organization and the larger number of victims (typically thousands or more) who may not be prominent individuals. Other violence, such as rape, torture, arson, or bombings may be carried out alongside murders. They may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary militia groups, government soldiers, policemen, or combinations thereof. They may also be organized as vigilantes, bounty hunters, mercenaries, or contract killers. When death squads are not controlled by the state, they may consist of insurgent forces or organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MANO
Mano may refer to: People * Mano people, an ethnic group in Liberia * Mano (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname * Mano (Mozambican footballer), Celso Halilo de Abdul (born 1984) * Mano (Portuguese footballer), Luís Miguel Lopes Mendes (born 1987) * Mano (singer), stage name of Indian playback singer Nagoor Babu (born 1965) Places * Mano, Landes, a commune in France * Mano, Niigata, a town in Japan * Mano, Sierra Leone, a town * Mano River, a river in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone * Mandø, a Danish island formerly often spelled Manø Other uses * Mano language, spoken by the Mano people * Movement of Organized Nationalist Action (''Movimiento de Acción Nacionalista Organizado''), a former Guatemalan paramilitary group * Mano (comics), a comic book supervillain * ''Mano'' (film) a 2007 film about Hector Lavoe * Mano (stone), a type of hand stone used to grind grain * Mano (gesture), a Filipino gesture of respect * Mano (mythology), a female deity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Press (publisher)
Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was one of the best-known publishers specializing in serious nonfiction, including path-breaking sociology books of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. After a period under new ownership in the 1980s of publishing neoconservative books, it was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994. By 2012, the imprint ceased to exist as a distinct entity; however, some books were still being published using the Free Press imprint. History Free Press was founded by Jeremiah Kaplan (1926–1993) and Charles Liebman in 1947 and concentrated on religion and social science. They chose the name Free Press because they wanted to print books devoted to civil liberties. It was launched with three classic titles: ''Division of Labor'' by Emile Durkheim, ''The Theory of Economic and Social Organization'' by Max Weber and ''The Scientific Outlook'' by Bertrand Russell. It was headquartered in Glencoe, Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia (June 17, 1908 – February 18, 1997) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the Head of Government from March 1963 to July 1966. He took over the office of the presidency after staging a coup d'état against President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, under whom he served as Agriculture (1959–1960) and Defense minister (1961–1963). Peralta would later form the Institutional Democratic Party, a pro-military governing party modeled on the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which dominated Guatemalan politics until 1982. In the 1978 general election, he was the candidate of the National Liberation Movement but was defeated by Fernando Romeo Lucas García. Biography Early life and education Peralta was born on June 17, 1908, in Guatemala City. He studied at the and enlisted in the Guatemalan Army in 1926. Career Peralta served as a military attaché for the embassies of Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 5 March 1978.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 No candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Fernando Romeo Lucas García being elected president by Congress with 35 votes,''Information Services on Latin America'', Volume 16, 1978, p82 amidst an opposition boycott. The Congressional elections were won by the National Liberation Movement. Results President Congress References Bibliography *Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004. *Political handbook of the world 1978. New York, 1979. {{Guatemalan elections Elections in Guatemala General Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (24 January 1930''Heads of States and Governments Since 1945'' Harris M. Lentz, Routledge, 4 Feb 2014, page 345 – 9 December 2009) was a Guatemalan military officer who served as the 36th from 1974 until 1978. A member of the National Liberation Movement, he previously served as G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Guatemalan General Election
General elections were held in Guatemala on 3 March 1974.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p323 The ruling Institutional Democratic Party's presidential candidate was General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, an army officer whose running mate was Mario Sandoval Alarcón, the long-time leader of the far-right National Liberation Movement. The National Opposition Front's candidate was also an army officer, General Efraín Ríos Montt, whose running mate was economist Alberto Fuentes Mohr. The National Opposition Front was a coalition of the Guatemalan Christian Democracy, Fuentes's Social Democratic Party, and the Authentic Revolutionary Party. After the National Opposition Front led the first counts on election night, the government stopped releasing further updates and several days later declared that Laugerud had won by about 71,000 votes. According to many independent observers, this result was fraudulent, and Ríos had actually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
