HIST3760

A Revolutionary Century:
Resistance, Reform, and
Repression in Central
America, 1900-present

WEEK 9:
POSTWAR CENTRAL
AMERICA Rodrigo Veliz Estrada
 Week 9
Key questions:
What was the foreign policy of Guatemala's revolutionary
governments?

Primary Sources:
US, UK, Mexican and Guatemalan government source

Readings:
Bethbel, Leslie e Ian Roxborough, eds. “Introduction: The Postwar
Conjucture in Latin America”. Latin America Between the Second
World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948. Londres: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
Gleijeses, Piero. “Juan José Arévalo and the Caribbean Legion”.
Journal of Latin American Studies. 21, 1 (1989): 133-145.
Weld, Kirsten. “The other door: Spain and the Guatemalan Counter-
Revolution, 1944-54”, Journal of Latin American Studies, 51-2 1-29,
Summary Week 8

U.S. GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY

AND THE PERMANENCE OF
DICTATORS IN CA
Germany in LA
Primary source
exercise

Memo 27/03/42. Summay of problems

Memo 3/11/42 (until p.3 3rd par.). CA case and problems

Montevideo resolution (p.12-15)

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“There Goes the Neighborhood:
Blacklisting Germans in Latin America and
the Evanescence of the Good Neighbor
Policy”

Economic warfare

Migration policies and US prejudices (role of

Spruille Braden)

Good Neighbor policy?

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"Latin America between the
Second World War and the Cold
War"
Neglected by historiography, why is it
important?

Main traits of the 'first phase'

'Second phase": domestic and international

scenarios complex interplay

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The other door: Spain and the
Guatemalan Counter-Revolution,
1944-54

Guatemala's foreign policy

Reactionary fervour, conservative Hispanophilia and

Franco

The U.S. empowered and funded a pre-existing and

sharply reactionary tendency originating from within
Guatemala and reflecting its elites’ conservative
Hispanophilia

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Juan José Arévalo and the
Caribbean Legion

Main reasons for Arévalo's aggressive stance

Support, social composition and main avenues

of action

Truman policy: failures and victories

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Primary source
exercise

Conference of Chapultepec - Guatemala and El Salvador

Arming Honduras? defining a dictatorship

CIA - Caribbean Legion: summary

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 Summary Week 9:
U.S. GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY AND THE
EMERGENCE OF DICTATORS IN CA

STRATEGIES AND MUTUAL FEUDS INSIDE

OF CA POLITICS

MUTUAL HELP AND THE ONSET OF WWII