Person

Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez

Guatemalan labor leader who headed the CGTG union federation and was killed by police in the late 1960s.

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Guatemala’s agrarian reform, 1952 1951 with Fortuny and Pellecer drafted the land reform proposal in 1951, at Árbenz’s direction, the CIA history says Primary record 1

Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 headed the union federation; police killed him and 11 other leaders in the late 1960s, the history says Primary record 1

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Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954 (CIA History Staff, Nicholas Cullather; released 1997), Central Intelligence Agency, 1994. Primary record Archived copy
Fortuny, Pellecer, and Gutiérrez drafted a proposal in 1951 for a major restructuring of property ownership in Guatemala.
headed by Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, claimed some 90,000 members.
Guatemalan police force arrested, tortured, and killed Victor Gutiérrez and 11 other leaders, sewed their bodies into burlap sacks and dropped them in the ocean from an army transport plane.

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