1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

When

18 Jun 1954 – 27 Jun 1954

Kind

Coup

Coordinates

14.64° N, 90.51° W

Description

coup d'état in Guatemala

CIA-backed deposition of Jacobo Árbenz

The democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was deposed in a coup d'état in 1954, marking 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. The coup was precipitated by a CIA covert operation code-named PBSuccess.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A CIA-engineered military coup occurs in Guatemala”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Rund 400 von der CIA ausgebildete „Freiheitskämpfer“ drangen auf Intervention der United Fruit Company in Guatemala ein, um den demokratisch gewählten…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “la CIA organise un coup d’État au Guatemala depuis le Honduras”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page