Abstract

VELIZ ESTRADA, Rodrigo. “Dreamers and Quixotes”: The International Facet of the Guatemalan Revolutionary Project (1944-1951). Secuencia [online]. 2021, n.111, e1933.  Epub Nov 16, 2021. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i111.1933.

This article examines the Guatemalan diplomatic agenda from world war II to the start of the cold war. It argues that the strategy derived from this agenda makes it possible to observe the legacies of geopolitical disputes in Central America, the position of Guatemalans vis-à-vis this inherited scenario, and the maneuverability of their diplomacy. The study is an initial attempt to observe the foreign policy of the first part of the Guatemalan revolutionary period and to fill in the gaps to help complement the excess importance of historiography in the North American intervention of 1954. It is based on new Guatemalan repositories supplemented by consular archives in Paris and diplomatic archives in London, Washington, and Mexico City.

Keywords : cold war; colonialism; Central America; dictatorships; repatriation.

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