Question

In this country, the West German ambassador Karl von Spreti’s death prompted the assassination of a communist politician by the White Hand death squad. A 1967 book by Eduardo Galeano titled for this “occupied country” describes a leader of the rebel movement MR-13 being killed by a car bomb. A human rights activist from (-5[1])this country who founded the indigenous Winaq (10[1])party also received the 1992 (10[1])Nobel Peace Prize. (10[1])This country (10[1])experienced a 36-year civil war beginning with the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas. During the Ten Years of Spring, a president of this country pushed land reform with Decree 900 but was overthrown in the CIA-backed (10[1])Operation PBSuccess. (10[3])For 10 points, name this Central American country where the United Fruit Company helped depose Jacobo Árbenz. ■END■

ANSWER: Guatemala [or Republic of Guatemala; or República de Guatemala; accept Guatemala: Occupied Country] (The activist in the third sentence is Rigoberta Menchú.)
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Anirudh BharadwajPenn AYale C53-5
Karsten RynearsonYale AHaverford6010
Cooper RohColumbia BNYU B6510
Aiden DartleyRutgers AColumbia C6810
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU ARowan A7010
John John GrogerColumbia APrinceton B10610
Andrew MinagarYale BBard A10810
Nathan ZhangCornell CPenn B10810
Simon EmmanuelRutgers BVassar10810

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