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...candidate José Cecilio del Valle defeated Morazán, but he died before taking office, leaving Morazán as president. In Guatemala, opposition to the liberal policies of Gov. Mariano Gálvez, including anticlericalism, encouragement of foreign immigration, land grants, judicial reform, and a general head tax, combined with panic caused by a cholera epidemic, led to...
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