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'''Famous Guatemalans''':
* Manuel Estrada, dictator from 1898 to 1920, infamous for allowing the entry of the United Fruit Company to the country (the [[Trope Namer]] of the [[Banana Republic]]) and for trying to [[Cloudcuckoolander|install a cult of Minerva]] (yes, ''[[Classical Mythology|that]]'' [[Classical Mythology|Minerva]]).
* General Miguel Ydígoras, dictator from 1958 to 1963, who is notorious mainly because he once challenged the Mexican president to a [[Duel to
* Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967. His most famous book is ''El Señor Presidente'' (''Mister President''), where he analyses the usual characteristics of a Latin American dictator (though his main inspiration was the aforementioned Manuel Estrada).
* Rigoberta Menchú, an indigenous woman of K’iche’ ethnicy (the same ethnicy detailed on the [[Popol Vuh]]), who won the Nobel Peace prize in 1992 for her work helping refugees of the Guatemalan Civil War.
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