The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996

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The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996. The thirty-six-year civil war began as a The Guatemalan Civil War ranfrom 1960 to 1996. The thirty-six-year civil war began as a grassroots, popular response to the rightist and military usurpation of civil government (State and public institutions), and the dictatorship's disrespect for the human and civil rights of the TheGuatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996. The thirty-six-year civil war began as a grassroots, popular response to therightist and military usurpation of civil government (State and public institutions), and the dictatorship's disrespect for the humanand civil rights of the majority population. In 1944, the "October Revolutionaries" assumed government and instituted liberal economic reform benefiting and politically strengthening the civil and labor rights of the urban working class and the peasants.

Elsewhere, a group of leftist students, professionals, and liberal-democratic government coalitions were led by Juan José Arévalo

and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Although only about one-fourth of India¶s people live in towns and cities, more than 4,500 places are classified as urban. In general,

the proportion is higher in the agriculturally prosperous regions of the northwest, west, and souththan in the northeastern rice-growing parts of the country, where the population capacity islimited by generally meagre crop surpluses.

In India large cities long have been growing at faster rates than small cities and towns. The major metropolitan agglomerations have the fastest rates of all, even where, as in Kolkata, there is ahigh degree of congestion within the central city. Major contributors to urban growth are the burgeoning of the bureaucracy, the increasing commercialization of the agricultural economy,and the spread of factory industry and services.

Cemetery in Rabinal Much of Indias rural population lives in nucleated villages, which most commonly havea settlement form described as a shapeless agglomerate. Such settlements, though unplanned, are

divided by caste into distinct wards and grow outward from a recognizable core area. The dominant and

higher castes tend to live in the core area, while the lower artisan and service castes, as well as Muslim

groups, generally occupy more peripheral localities. When the centrally located castes increase in

population, they either subdivide their existing, often initially large, residential compounds, add second

and even third stories on their existing houses (a common expedient in Punjab), leapfrog over lower-

caste wards to a new area on the village periphery, or, in rare cases where land is available, found a

completely new village.



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In consequence, the U.S. Government, ordered the CIA to launch Operation PBSUCCESS (1953±54) and halt Guatemala's ³driftto the Left´, as perceived by the corporate fruit companies and the U.S. State Department. The CIA chose right-wing armyColonel Carlos Castillo Armas to lead an "insurrection" in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. Upon deposing the Árbenz GuzmánGovernment, Col. Castillo Armas began dismantling a decade of socio-economic reform and legislative progress, and bannedlabor unions and Left-wing political parties, disenfranchisement that radicalized left-wing Guatemalans.[1]

A series of military coups d¶état followed, featuring fraudulent elections offering only military officers as candidates to civilgovernment office. Aggravating the general poverty and political repression motivating the civil war was the socio-economicdiscrimination and racism practiced against the Guatemala's indigenous peoples, such as the Maya; many later fought the civilwar. Although the dark-skinned native Guatemalans constitute more than half of the national populace, they are landless, whilstthe land-lord upper classes of the oligarchy, white-skinned descendants of European immigrants to Guatemala, controlled most of

the land.

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40,000 to 50,000 disappeared during the war and approximately 200,000 were killed. Felipe Cusanero became the first person to be sentenced for this in 2009 when he received a 150-year jail term, 25 years for each of his six missing victims. This was haileda landmark prison sentence in Guatemala.

majority population. In 1944, the "October Revolutionaries" assumed government and instituted liberal economic reform benefiting and politically strengthening the civil and labor rights of the urban working class and the peasants. Elsewhere, a groupof leftist students, professionals, and liberal-democratic government coalitions were led by Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo ArbenzGuzmán.



In consequence, the U.S. Government, ordered the CIA to launch Operation PBSUCCESS (1953±54) and halt Guatemala's ³driftto the Left´, as perceived by the corporate fruit companies and the U.S. State Department. The CIA chose right-wing armyColonel Carlos Castillo Armas to lead an "insurrection" in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état. Upon deposing the Árbenz GuzmánGovernment, Col. Castillo Armas began dismantling a decade of socio-economic reform and legislative progress, and bannedlabor unions and Left-wing political parties, disenfranchisement that radicalized left-wing Guatemalans.[1]

A series of military coups d¶état followed, featuring fraudulent elections offering only military officers as candidates to civilgovernment office. Aggravating the general poverty and political repression motivating the civil war was the socio-economicdiscrimination and racism practiced against the Guatemala's indigenous peoples, such as the Maya; many later fought the civilwar. Although the dark-skinned native Guatemalans constitute more than half of the national populace, they are landless, whilstthe land-lord upper classes of the oligarchy, white-skinned descendants of European immigrants to Guatemala, controlled most of the land.[2]

40,000 to 50,000 disappeared during the war and approximately 200,000 were killed. Felipe Cusanero became the first person to be sentenced for this in 2009 when he received a 150-year jail term, 25 years for each of his six missing victims. This was haileda landmark prison sentence in Guatemala.

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The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996