As in Puerto Rico, after the Spanish American War 1899, so in Guatemala, the US government policy of using protestant missionaries such as the Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and 7th Day Adventists from the US as an instrument of division among the people. This policy would disrupt the Catholic Church's effort to organize to challenge and transform the oppressive structures and systems that left so many powerless to make sustainable change.  Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and 7th Day Adventists were willing collaborators with the US and the oligarchy, whose interpretation of the Christian faith, inoculated various peoples of Guatemala with a highly sentimentalized Christianity, with little to no concern for the present world, wallowed in their personal relationship with Jesus to the detriment of the work for justice and systemic change. That kind of institutional conversion required the collective power of organized people that the Catholics could have brought to bear.