1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
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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
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the advocate of the coup d'état, in 1956
Manuel Estrada Cabrera, President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920, granted several concessions to the United Fruit Company.
Farmland in the Quetzaltenango Department, in western Guatemala
The former headquarters of the United Fruit Company, in New Orleans. The company played a key role in instigating the 1954 coup d'état.
Che Guevara
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized vi
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
…joining the Soviet Union's side in this argument, backing out at the last minute. Among the civilians in Guatemala City during the coup was a 25-year-old Che Guevara. After a couple of abortive attempts to fight on the side of the government, Guevara took shelter at the embassy of Argentina, before eventually being…
Guerrillero Heroico, 1960
Baby Ernesto
Ernesto aged 5 in 1933
Teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, c. 1944. Left to right: Celia (mother), Celia (sister), Roberto, Juan Martín, Ernesto (father) and Ana María