Person

Jacobo Árbenz

President of Guatemala from 1951 until he gave up power on 27 June 1954.

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Guatemala’s agrarian reform, 1952 17 Jun 1952 promulgated Decree 900 Primary record 2

Guatemala after the coup, 1954 and after allowed to leave for Mexico on 12 September 1954 Primary record 1
Guatemala’s agrarian reform, 1952 the State Department’s historians say he met Communists to draw up the law; the CIA history says only four Communists held seats in the 61-member congress Primary record 1 2
The 1954 coup in Guatemala the CIA history says the Army gave him an ultimatum, and that the Agency “never found out why” the government collapsed Primary record 1

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 allowed free passage to Mexico on 12 September 1954, after a final humiliation; he lived in exile until he drowned in his bathtub in 1971 Primary record 1

Timeline 2 dates

Proof 2 sources

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Jacobo Arbenz elected president.
Arbenz capitulates.
allowed Arbenz free passage to Mexico on 12 September 1954.
Only four Communists held seats in the 61-member congress, a body dominated by moderates.
Just as the entire operation seemed beyond saving, the Guatemalan Government suddenly, inexplicably collapsed. The Agency never found out why.
returning finally to Mexico where in 1971 he drowned in his bathtub.
Introduction, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, Guatemala, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 2003. Primary record
When he assumed office in early 1951
on June 17, 1952, the bill was passed and President Arbenz promulgated Decree 900, the Agrarian Reform Law.
in late 1951 he secretly met with them to draw up an agrarian reform law.

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