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VAZQUEZ MEDELES, Juan Carlos. “The Case of Guatemala”: Doctrine and Praxis of the Guatemalan Delegation in I Latin American Anti-Communist Congress. Latinoamérica [online]. 2021, n.73, pp.11-39.  Epub 09-Mayo-2022. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2022.73.57250.

The article describes the participation of the Guatemalan delegation in the 1st Congress against Soviet Intervention in Latin America, held in May 1954. The objective is to articulate its anti-communist discourse, manifested in its doctrine and praxis, as a preamble to the liberationist invasion that deposed to President Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán. As a pioneering study on the subject, the documents of the Central Intelligence Agency and the texts of authors who have approached the topic were exhaustively reviewed. As a result, the political exercise of these agents is accentuated, as well as the consolidation of their ideas and the materials in the historical development or their country. It is added that their protagonism was established as a milestone in the intercrossings and interactions with Latin America subjects and groups, related to its ideology, in the period was inserted into the global ideological conflict.

Palabras llave : Anticommunism; Guatemala; Representations; Anticommunist Congress.