Event

Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after

Castillo Armas’s government canceled land reform and banned parties and unions; police arrested peasants on land granted under Decree 900.

4 links, 4 backed by primary records

Connections 4

Carlos Castillo Armas 1954 disfranchised illiterates, canceled land reform and outlawed political parties, labor confederations and peasant organizations Primary record 1

Government of Guatemala the CIA history says Castillo Armas’s police “concentrated on arresting thousands of peasants who tried to remain on the land granted them by Decree 900” Primary record 1
Jacobo Árbenz allowed to leave for Mexico on 12 September 1954 Primary record 1
Central Intelligence Agency its Chief Historian wrote that “we are perhaps less certain today than most Americans were at the time” that the operation was a Cold War victory Primary record 1

Timeline 2 dates

1954–1960 Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after
1954 Carlos Castillo Armas intervened in Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after

Proof 1 source

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Castillo Armas completed his lunge to the right by disfranchising illiterates (two-thirds of the electorate), canceling land reform, and outlawing all political parties, labor confederations, and peasant organizations.
concentrated on arresting thousands of peasants who tried to remain on the land granted them by Decree 900.
allowed Arbenz free passage to Mexico on 12 September 1954.
perhaps less certain today than most Americans were at the time that this operation was a Cold War victory.

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