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The CIA contacted Carlos Castillo Armas, a Guatemalan army officer who had been exiled from the country in 1949 following a failed coup attempt against President Arévalo. [69] Believing that Castillo Armas would lead a coup with or without their assistance, the CIA decided to supply him with weapons and 225,000 U.S. dollars.
The Anti-Arevalist coup, aiming to prevent former President Juan José Arévalo from taking power again, (1945–1951) was mainly executed by two army garrisons in the nation's capital of Guatemala City - Guardia De Honor and Mariscal Zavala [3] - and led by two military figures: Colonel Enrique Peralta Azuria, Minister of Defence during the Ydígoras administration, and Colonel Catalino ...
May 11, 1988: A first coup attempt against Guatemalan president Vinicio Cerezo took place. [98] May 9, 1989: A second coup attempt against Guatemalan president Vinicio Cerezo took place. [98] May 25 to June 5, 1993: An attempted self-coup by President Jorge Serrano sparked a constitutional crisis.
The 1982 Guatemalan coup d'état was a successful military overthrow in Guatemala by junior military officers, ousting the Romeo Lucas Garcia administration and installing a three-man military junta headed by General Efraín Ríos Montt.
Meanwhile, the Washington-based Organization of American States condemned what it called an "attempted coup d'etat" orchestrated by Guatemalan Attorney General Consuelo Porras and her aides.
The OAS in a statement said it “condemns the coup attempt by Guatemalan prosecutors” and urged Guatemala's courts and congress not to allow it.
This is a chronological list of such coups and coup attempts, from ancient times to the present. ... Guatemala: A military coup overthrew Luis Arturo González López
The 1983 Guatemalan coup d'état was a palace revolt in Guatemala by the officer corps, led by then Defense Minister General Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, which successfully ousted General Ríos Montt. Mejía Víctores governed the country for three years until international pressure forced him to make democratic reforms.