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The Guatemalan Coup

The LRB Podcast

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Casti Armas Lasted Barely Three Years, Hewas, Assassinated 90 57

Casti armas lasted barely three years. He was uncarismatic, skinny, a terrible sort of hitleresque mustache. And he didn't last very long, did he. The armas was himself, hewas, assassinated 90 57. So guatemala saw the longest and the bloodiest confict in twentieth century a western hemisphere. 200 thousand people killed, the vast majority of whom were myn a indigenous people.

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