Guatemala’s deposed President Jacobo Arbenz arrived last week with his family at Zermatt, five miles from Switzerland’s Matterhorn, and announced that he was negotiating for recognition of his ...

Trump’s Secretary of State is headed for Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Here’s a primer on the countries he’ll see and what’s at stake ...

the Guatemalan Revolution of Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Árbenz, and the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. These alliances were crucial in shaping the political landscape of Latin ...

The next year, when the regime of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán seemed increasingly proCommunist, the CIA stage-managed a civil war that ended in Arbenz’s overthrow. CIA agents dug ...

Arévalo was succeeded by Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, a young military officer and Arévalo disciple. Arbenz swept to victory in the 1951 elections and vowed to take Arévalo’s peaceful revolution a ...

In 1953 Guatemala was a capitalist democracy under President Jacobo Árbenz. The same year, the US State Department published a classified document: NIE-84. It stated “the principal objective of the ...

In the same year, MI6 came up with a plot of its own, supported by the US, based on the overthrow of Iran’s prime minister Muhammad Musaddiq in 1953 and Guatemala’s president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954.

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