On this day, 1 July 1944, a popular uprising and general strike forced US-backed Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico to step down, and instead a social democratic government was set up.
The new government implemented numerous social reforms like a minimum wage, improved literacy, union rights and land reform.
This drew the ire of the United Fruit Company, Guatemala’s largest landowner, which lobbied the US government heavily to overthrow the Guatemalan government, which it eventually did in 1954.
Pictured: strikers in Guatemala City, 1944
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Another of my designs for our new Supersized show and one of my favorites from this project, a white-lipped pit viper. Snakes are so beautiful and amazing. I really made a rod for my own back by insisting on making the complex pattern to create the individual scales from nose to tail. But I think all the hard work paid off and seeing the results when the model was complete made it all worthwhile.
Is it bad if my first instinct is to see if I could fit my hand in there?
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