The 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala

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General Jorge Ubico, overthrown in 1944.

 
Revolutionary triumvirate: Major Francisco Arana, Jorge Toriello and Captain Jacobo Arbenz in 1944. Juan José Arévalo, age 42, elected president in 1945. Arbenz and his aristocratic Salvadoran 
wife María Vilanova, a member of the Communist Party.

 
Communist leader
Victor Manuel Gutiérrez
Communist leader
José Manuel Fortuny
The ragtag rebel army 
funded by the CIA.

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