Devils Don't Dream! (1997)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 7, 1997Release Date
Devils Don't Dream! (1997)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 7, 1997Release Date
Plot.
Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an image seen around the world. Arbenz had led the successful 1944 revolt against the military dictatorship, a regime that had oppressed Guatemala since colonialism. Arbenz, the son of Swiss immigrants, was celebrated as a national hero. Elected President in 1950, Arbenz was not a member of any party - he didn't issue any manifestos. But he began to fulfill his promises - farmers got their own land. 'The first act of justice since colonial times,' said Arbenz. In the early 1950s, with the Cold War intensifying, then Vice President Richard Nixon said, 'Arbenz is not a Guatemalan President.' Nixon called him 'a foreigner, manipulated by foreign powers.' The young President of Guatemala was soon overthrown, declared a traitor, and chased out of the country.
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The fall of President Jacobo rbenz Guzmn, who was of Swiss descent and first found asylum in Switzerland, is the subject of a 1995 Swiss documentary film. The film was shown on 3sat.