Guatemalan Documents Collection 1944-1954

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Guatemalan Documents Collection 1944-1954

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Microfilm and papers containing correspondence, minutes, financial accounts, and other records and papers of Guatemalan government agencies, political parties, labor unions, and private individuals, nationally and internationally, documenting the period of reforms and social and political upheaval in the decade before the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán by Carlos Castillo Armas in 1954.

60,000 items; 94 containers; 27 linear feet; 58 microfilm reels

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6357253

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo, 1913-1971

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Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (b. Sept. 14, 1913, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala–d. Jan. 27, 1971, Mexico City, Mexico) was a military officer in Guatemala. In 1950 he was elected president of Guatemala in the second democratic election; as president instituted a land reform. However, Árbenz Guzmán was ousted in 1954 in a coup engineered by the US Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency. He lived in exile in Mexico until his death....

Castillo Armas, Carlos, 1914-1957

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University of Pennsylvania. Foreign Policy Research Institute

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Ubico, Jorge, 1878-1946

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Comité Nacional de Defensa contra El Comunismo.

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