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Carlos Castillo Armas
Carlos Castillo Armas (1914–1957) was a Guatemalan army officer who led the small rebel force, organised and armed by the CIA, that invaded from Honduras in June 1954 and brought down the elected government of Jacobo Árbenz. As president from 1954 he reversed the land reform, banned opposition parties and persecuted the left. He was assassinated in the presidential palace in July 1957.
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