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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacobo Árbenz has received more than 1,222,856 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Jacobo Árbenz is the 3,170th most popular politician (down from 3,084th 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

Among politicians, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 3,170 out of 19,576. Before him are Agnes of Poitou, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Joseph Berchtold, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Tetricus I, and As-Salih Ayyub. After him are Gyeongjong of Goryeo, Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Muhammadu Buhari, Djedkare Isesi, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, and Demaratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 44. Before him are Jimmy Hoffa, Artur Axmann, René Clément, Witold Lutosławski, Erich Priebke, and Roger Wolcott Sperry. After him are Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, and Mary Ainsworth. Among people deceased in 1971, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 29. Before him are François Duvalier, D. B. Cooper, Igor Tamm, Lothar Rendulic, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Rudolf Abel. After him are Roy O. Disney, Marcel Dupré, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Max Steiner, and Johannes Frießner.

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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 Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), 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, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 1. After him are Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), 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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