Misunderstood Caudillo: Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes and the Failure of Democracy in Guatemala

by Roland H. Ebel

This book deals with the period of Guatemalan history between the U.S.-backed overthrow of the Arbenz regime in 1954 and the establishment of the civil-military national-security state in 1970. Specifically, it treats the regime of General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, the one-time functionary of the dictator, Jorge Ubico (1931-1944), who sought to install a more open, democratic political system in Guatemala during the period from 1957 to 1963. His experiment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761808884
• ISBN13: 9780761808886
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 376 Pages