In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country’s undisputed ruler—shy and ...

The implication is that African countries have a real partner in development—a fellow developing country that shares their humiliated past but overcame it despite extreme hardship and became ...

In Guatemala, a CIA coup in 1954 replaced the democratic government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman with a brutal dictatorship.

They insisted that the right may only encompass political self-determination, especially in the wake of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's land reform measures, which referenced a 1952 UN ...

His parents, former Guatemalan President Juan Jose Arevalo and his second wife Margarita de Leon, were exiled from the country in 1954, after the democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz ...

In 1954, the leftist government of freely-elected President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was overthrown in a US-backed coup, leading to a string of pro-American, right-wing regimes and the outbreak of ...

“PBSuccess was the code name for a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz Guzman ...

Former Guatemalan Pres. Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (center) was deposed by the CIA in 1954 as part of its larger plan to assassinate dozens of leading international politicians.

At the time, he used the following phrase to accuse the government of Guatemala's Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán of being a Communist.