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- The Guatemalan Revolution, which lasted from 1944 to 1954, included an agrarian reform program that granted land to half a million landless peasants.
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- Communist leader José Manuel Fortuny was a friend and adviser to Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz.
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- The cult of Maximón (or San Simón) in the highlands of Western Guatemala venerates a cigar-smoking effigy with offerings of money, alcoholic spirits and tobacco.
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- Remittances are the major source of foreign income for Guatemala, accounting for more than the combined value of exports and tourism.
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- El Mirador was by far the most populated city in Pre-Columbian America and contains the second largest pyramid in the world by volume.
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- Tecún Umán, a legendary king of the K'iche-Maya people, is controversially acclaimed as Guatemala's national hero.
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- Mano Blanca was an anti-communist death squad set up and run by the Guatemalan military with considerable assistance from the United States.
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- The United States Central Intelligence Agency deposed the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
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- ... that the Chiquimula Department of Guatemala contains the Black Christ of Esquipulas, one of the most important centres for religious pilgrimage in Central America?
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- ... that military officer Francisco Javier Arana, who briefly ruled Guatemala as part of a three-person junta, was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
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- ... that the ancient Maya ruins of San Clemente, El Petén, in Guatemala include a two-storey palace structure and two Mesoamerican ballcourts?
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- ... that Pascual Abaj, near Chichicastenango in Guatemala, is a sculpted stone idol that survived the Spanish conquest but was badly damaged in the 1950s by religious activists?
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- ... that fragments of ancient Maya books have been recovered from the ruins of Guaytán in Guatemala?
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- ... that the Guatemalan labor organization Committee for Peasant Unity once led a strike that forced a minimum wage increase of nearly 200%?