In the late part of the nineteenth century, there was a growing level of involvement from United States and Germany in Central America.

[2] The United Fruit Company sought the help of President Eisenhower, arguing that Jacobo Arbenz had legalized the Guatemalan Labor Party.

In response, the CIA organized "Operation PBSuccess" which consisted in training and funding of a paramilitary rebel army (Liberation Movement).

[4] In 1882, under the presidency of General Justo Rufino Barrios, Frederick Crowe became the first Protestant missionary in Guatemala and officially received the Presbyterian pastor John C. Hill.

[5] The Halloween celebration was propagated in Guatemala in the 1920s, when U.S. troops deployed a military base in the current Campo Marte.