1. Cold War
... 27, 1953. Guatemala In 1953 the CIA contacted a group of Guatemalan exiles under the command of Carlos Acastillo Armas to start an uprising over then president Jacob Arbenz. In 1954 a mercenary army, trained by the CIA launched an invasion from Honduras. American analysts had hoped that the invasion would spark a popular uprising against the Guatemalan government. When the citizens of Guatemala ... ...
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