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Carlos Castillo Armas

1914 - 1957

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Carlos Castillo Armas (locally ['kaɾlos kas'tiʝo 'aɾmas]; 4 November 1914 – 26 July 1957) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A member of the right-wing National Liberation Movement (MLN) party, his authoritarian government was closely allied with the United States. Born to a planter, out of wedlock, Castillo Armas was educated at Guatemala's military academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Castillo Armas has received more than 611,114 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Carlos Castillo Armas is the 6,970th most popular politician (down from 6,587th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Guatemala and the 3rd most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 6,970 out of 19,576. Before him are Veleda, Margaret Chan, Kaliman Asen II of Bulgaria, Emperor Mo of Jin, Shutruk-Nakhunte, and Penda of Mercia. After him are Jean Chrétien, Zoltán of Hungary, Richilde of Provence, Rhadamistus, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, and Tomás Estrada Palma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 90. Before him are Martin Gardner, Richard Basehart, Bernard Malamud, Ferenc Fricsay, Edmund Conen, and Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy. After him are Annie Fischer, Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Marcel Bich, Nicanor Parra, J. Lee Thompson, and Eugene Nida. Among people deceased in 1957, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 72. Before him are Shoghi Effendi, Tomitaro Makino, Gaston Aumoitte, Ernst Gräfenberg, Soemu Toyoda, and Johann Rattenhuber. After him are Malcolm Lowry, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Josef Hofmann, Zhou Xuan, Washington Luís, and Josef Lada.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 5 out of 44. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), and Efraín Ríos Montt (1926). After him are Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), and Oscar Isaac (1979).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 3. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913), and Efraín Ríos Montt (1926). After him are Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), and Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857).

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