Carlos Castillo Armas
president of Guatemala
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Carlos Castillo Armas was a military leader who became provisional president of Guatemala in 1954 after helping to overthrow President Jacobo Árbenz. Castillo Armas reversed Árbenz's agrarian reforms and suppressed labor and peasant unions, often with violence. His presidency, however, was cut short when he was assassinated in July 1957. Following his death, Guatemala experienced a period of military rule with little regard for democratic processes, which contributed to the outbreak of a long civil war.12
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