Carlos Castillo Armas
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Carlos Castillo Armas was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A member of the far-right
Official portrait, 1954
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Castillo Armas trained for seven months
Guatemalan Civil War
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The Guatemalan Civil War was fought from 1960 to 1996 between the government of Guatemala and various leftist rebel groups. The Guatemalan government forces committed genocide against the Maya populat
Carlos Castillo Armas
…of the US. His reversal of the reforms of his predecessors sparked a series of leftist insurgencies in the country after his death, culminating in the Guatemalan Civil War of 1960 to 1996. Carlos Castillo Armas was born on 4 November 1914, in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the department of Escuintla. He was the son of a…
President Manuel Estrada Cabrera's official portrait from his last presidential term; during his government, the American United Fruit Company became a major economic and political force in Guatemala
Entrance to the United Fruit Company headquarters. The multinational fruit company launched the coup over the distribution of vacant land.
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the Eisenhower administration and board member of the United Fruit Company.
General Jorge Ubico Castañeda.