Education
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
A longtime communist ideologue, during the social revolution of the administration of Jacobo Arbenz he was appointed undersecretary of the land reform program González welcomed Che Guevara to Guatemala and gave him a government job. However, he had to flee his country following the 1954 overthrow of the government and for two years lived in Ecuador then went to Mexico.
González obtained a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Many decades later, he was allowed back to Guatemala by President Vinicio Cerezo. During his liftetime, González published more than 60 books with a number translated to several different languages.