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Jacobo Árbenz

1913 - 1971

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Juan Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (Spanish: [xwaŋ xaˈkoβo ˈaɾβens ɣusˈman]; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as the 25th president of Guatemala. He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to 1954. He was a major figure in the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution, which represented some of the few years of representative democracy in Guatemalan history. The landmark program of agrarian reform Árbenz enacted as president was very influential across Latin America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacobo Árbenz is the 2,527th most popular politician (up from 3,170th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Guatemala and the most popular Guatemalan Politician.

Jacobo Árbenz was the president of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954. He was most famous for being overthrown by a CIA-backed coup.

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Among politicians, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 2,527 out of 19,576. Before him are Shamash-shum-ukin, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Nogai Khan, Manco Inca Yupanqui, and Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary. After him are Dihya, Empress Suiko, Yekuno Amlak, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and John VII Palaiologos.

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Among people born in 1913, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 36. Before him are Lon Nol, Carmen Amaya, Albert Ellis, William Tolbert, Wolfgang Paul, and Trevor Howard. After him are Jimmy Hoffa, Frances Farmer, Werner Mölders, Witold Lutosławski, René Clément, and Artur Axmann. Among people deceased in 1971, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 29. Before him are Wilhelm List, François Duvalier, Rudolf Abel, Lin Biao, Franz Stangl, and Donald Winnicott. After him are Arne Jacobsen, Lothar Rendulic, Marcel Dupré, Violet Jessop, Bernardo Houssay, and Yrjö Väisälä.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 2 out of 44. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899). After him are Álvaro Colom (1951), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), and Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (1947).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 1. After him are Álvaro Colom (1951), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Óscar Berger (1946), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), and Álvaro Arzú (1946).

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