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The Myth of a Central American Dictators' League

1978; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022216x00021283

1469-767X

Kenneth J. Griéb,

Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

A series of military dictators came to power in the four nothern republics of Central America during the Great Depression of the 1930s and perpetuated themselves in office through continuismo tactics until roughly the conclusion of the Second World War: General Jorge Ubico, the first and strongest of these caudillos, ruled Guatemala from 1931 to 1944; General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez governed El Salvador from December 1931 to 1944; General Tiburcio Carías Andino dominated Honduras from 1933 to 1946; and General Anastasio Somoza García controlled Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956.