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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 1,123,869 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Jacobo Árbenz is the 3,093rd most popular politician (up from 3,359th 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 3,093 out of 15,577Before him are Henri, Prince of Condé, Emperor Hui of Jin, Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Aleksey Kuropatkin, Charles III, Duke of Parma, and Emperor Taizu of Jin. After him are Alexander Balas, Junichiro Koizumi, Hayk, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Yazid III, and Jules de Polignac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 45Before him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, René Clément, Willis Lamb, Gert Fröbe, Luz Long, and Mehmet Shehu. After him are Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, Mark Felt, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, and Vinicius de Moraes. Among people deceased in 1971, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 29Before him are Harold Lloyd, D. B. Cooper, François Duvalier, Franz Stangl, Lothar Rendulic, and Wendell Meredith Stanley. After him are Diane Arbus, Pier Angeli, Violet Jessop, Johannes Frießner, Max Steiner, and W. O. Bentley.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 2 out of 42Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899). After him are Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Oscar Isaac (1979), Jorge Ubico (1878), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Juan José Arévalo (1904), and Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857).

Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz ranks 1After him are Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), and Álvaro Colom (1951).