 Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala (1931-1944) Jorge Ubico y Castañeda (November 10, 1878; † 14 July 1946) was President of Guatemala from 14 February 1931 to 4 July 1944. Ubico is widely considered the last of the Liberal authoritarian rulers in Latin America. Image File history File links Ubico. ...
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November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ...
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The President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1851, when that title was assumed by José Rafael Carrera, who had been acting as head of government as general and Caudillo since 1840. ...
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Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...
President Jorge Ubico was elected democratically, but once in office he assumed dictatorial powers. During his presidency Guatemala went through the Great Depression. He built an extensive network of roads and modernized local administrations, including health and school facilities. Ubico also abolished debt slavery and peonage, and oversaw the Vagrancy law which issued identification cards to all Guatemalans for the purpose of enforcing employment. His methods, however, were authoritarian. He harshly suppressed opposition and engineered constitutional changes twice to extend his term as president. Democracy in its ideal sense is the notion that the people should have the right to choose the government officials of their choice and those chosen should serve the people, not the interests of those who have the monetary means to bend the laws. ...
The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. ...
Under Ubico the United Fruit Company became the most important company in Guatemala. The company received import duty and real estate tax exemptions from the government, and controlled more land than any other individual or group, along with the sole rail road, the electricity producing capabilities, and the port facilities at Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic coast. The United Fruit Company (1899–1970) was a corporation prominent in the import-export trade of tropical fruit (notably bananas and pineapples) coming from Third World plantations and sent to the United States and Europe. ...
Puerto Barrios is a city in Guatemala, located at on the Gulf of Honduras at 15. ...
Ubico was forced to resign by a general strike against him which started in June of 1944.
He died in exile in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans (local pronunciations: , , or ) (French: La Nouvelle-Orléans, pronounced in standard French accent) is a major U.S. port city and historically the largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, based on the most current United States census numbers. ...
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