 The resignation of Ponce Vaides and the creation of the junta has been considered by scholars to be the beginning of the Guatemalan Revolution . However , the revolutionary junta did not immediately threaten the interests of the landed elite . Two days after Ponce Vaides ' resignation , a violent protest erupted at <unk> , a small Indian hamlet . The junta responded with swift brutality , silencing the protest . The dead civilians included women and children . 
