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Jacobo Árbenz. Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán ( Spanish: [xwaŋ xaˈkoβo ˈaɾβens ɣusˈman]; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th President of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President ...
- Juan José Arévalo
- Juan José Arévalo
- Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, 14 September 1913, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
- Carlos Enrique Díaz de León
Jacobo Arbenz (born September 14, 1913, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala—died January 27, 1971, Mexico City, Mexico) was a soldier, politician, and president of Guatemala (1951–54) whose nationalistic economic and social reforms alienated conservative landowners, conservative elements in the army, and the U.S. government and led to his overthrow.
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In June 1954 President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the first Latin American leader overthrown in a coup organised by the US government. On taking power, President Arbenz had proposed land ...
v. t. e. The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état ( Golpe de Estado en Guatemala de 1954) deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and marked the end of the Guatemalan Revolution. The coup installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala.
- 18–27 June 1954
Árbenz was a democratically elected leader who tried to reform the land distribution and challenge the U.S. interests in Guatemala. He was deposed by a U.S.-sponsored military invasion and replaced by a brutal dictatorship that lasted for decades.
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Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was born in Quezaltenango on September 14, 1913, the son of a Swiss pharmacist and a Latina mother. His father had emigrated to Guatemala in 1901 but, following the failure of his business, committed suicide. A family friend arranged for Arbenz's appointment to the Escuela Politécnica, the national military academy.
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