¿Qué pasó durante los años 1944 hasta 1996?

una cronología:

• 4 julio 1944: Dictator Jorge Ubico Castañeda forced to resign his office
• 20 octubre 1944: Major Francisco Javier Arana and Captain Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán leads coup d'état
• The country is placed under a military junta
• Juan José Arévalo Bermejo is democratically elected president
• 1954: Jacobo Arbenz (the successor or Arévalo) is overthrown by the U.S. CIA
• !954: Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas is installed as president
• 1957: Armas is assassinated by a member of his personal guard
• The following election General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes assumes power
• 1961: Ydígoras helps the U.S. with the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1963: Ydígoras ousted by his Defense Minister Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia
• 1963: Guerrilla insurgency movement begins (MR-13)
• Many parties split from MR-13 ( FAR, PGT), Death Squads formed
• 1966: Julio César Méndez Montenegro elected president
• U.S. gets involved with aid, training, military support
• 1966-1970 parties start to disintegrate from Guatemalan Army operations
• 1970: Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio elected president
• 1972: Guerrilla movement from Mexico enters Guatemala
• 1974: General Kjell Lauguerud García gains power through a disputed election
• 1978: General Romero Lucas García summes power (fraudulently)
• 1970's: start and rising power of two new guerrilla parties, the EGP (poor guerrilla army) and ORPA (organization of the peoples in arms)
• 1979: Jimmy Carter bans all military aid to Guatemala
• Isreali government assumes aid for Guatemala
• 1980: Quiché Indians take over Spanish Embassy
• 1982: General Efraín Ríos Montt named president of military junta
• General Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores overthrows Montt
• 1986: Free election won by Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo (Christian Democracy Party)
• 1982: EGP, ORPA, FAR, PGT join together and form URNG
• Many flee to Mexico
• 1996: Bloodshed ends and the repression is solved by a peace accord between the guerrillas and the government under president Alvaro Arzú (negotiated by the United Nations)

Información por:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala