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2 unusual facts about Juan José Arévalo


Juan José Arévalo

The president exiled several communist activists, declined to legalize the Communist Party of Guatemala, removed government officials with ties to the communist newspaper and shut down the Marxist instruction facility known as Escuela Claridad.

Arévalo opposed classical Marxism’s materialist tendency and affirmed that, “Communism is contrary to human nature, for it is contrary to the psychology of man”.



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