Jacobo Arbenz

He was born in Guatemala on September 14, 1913. He joined the army and graduated on 1935. He joined an Academy in Guatemala on 1937, he was a teacher there. In 1944 a bunch of teacheres made a strike, asking for more money. Lots of them were killed incluiding the leader. A few days later more than 300 teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc. demanded that the demonstrators' actions were legitimate. Then Ponce became a new dictator and set himself as a candidate to the Presidency. He arrested his opponent and Arbenz and Arana made a military rebelion. They won and sent Ponce out of the country. Arbenz and Arana made a new constitution. In which they made men and women equal, racial discrimination was declared a crime, higher education was free of governmental control, private monopolies were banned, workers were assured a forty-hour week, payment in coupons was forbidden, and labour unions were legalized. He died on January 27, 1971 in Mexico City.
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