GUATEMALA AND NICARAGUA

POLITICAL CHANGE

• Progressive liberalism and anti-Americanism was coming to Latin America
• The United States was not concerned with this development

GUATEMALA

• President Jacobo Guzman of Guatemala wanted to take back the land from the United Fruit Company to own more land then the United States
• The president offered to put on taxes of the company and the owners, but the United States declined
• The United States officials feared that his policies were pointing towards a more communist state which worried them
• Because of this the President Eisenhower empowered the CIA to help overthrow Guzman's government

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• Soon after this they helped with the president being overthrown in 1984
• Then a non-communist leader, Colonel Carlos Castillas Armas, was elected who made it a militarist state
• Carlos was then assassinated in 1957
• This plunged them into a civil war that didn't end until the 1990s

NICARAGUA

• President Anastacio Somoza Garcia of Nicaragua proved to be a anti-communist U.S. ally
• He outlawed the communist party in Nicaragua and gave arms to Guatemalan anti-communists
• Anastacio was aided by U.S. financial and military support
• He was overthrown by the Sandinistas who took power in 1979
• Each U.S. president reacted differently

AMNLAE: The association of women concerned about national crisis in 1977.
They changed their name to the Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaragua.
They changed their name in honor of the women who died in the first battle.
The group's slogan was,"No revolution without women's emancipation: no emancipation without revolution."