Contemporary era · 1954
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
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 Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala. The coup was precipitated by a CIA covert operation code-named PBSuccess.
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- When
- 18 Jun 1954 – 27 Jun 1954
- Where
- Guatemala
- Era
- Contemporary
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