Ruler · 1913 – 1971

Jacobo Árbenz

Lived 1913 – 1971; politician, military personnel. President of Guatemala (Guatemala), 1951 – 1954.

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Lived: 1913 – 1971; 58 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Guatemala
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Guatemala

Guatemala · the 19th of 44 dated reigns · 1839 – 2024

15 before

Jorge Toriello Garrido1944 – 1945

Francisco Javier Arana1944 – 1945

Juan José Arévalo1945 – 1951

Jacobo Árbenz1951 – 1954

Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre1954

Carlos Enrique Díaz de León1954

Carlos Castillo Armas1954 – 1957

22 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1951 – 1954 · 3 years · came to it aged 38

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: resigned

The U.S. was also concerned by the presence of communists in the Guatemalan government, and Árbenz was ousted in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état engineered by the government of U.S. president Dwight D.

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