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November 4, 1914 – July 26, 1957
serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. Was closely allied with the United States.
was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala
In 1957 Castillo Armas was assassinated by a presidential guard with leftist sympathies. He was the first of a series of authoritarian rulers in Guatemala who were close allies of the US. His reversal of the reforms of his predecessors sparked a series of leftist insurgencies in the country after his death, culminating in the Guatemalan Civil War of 1960 to 1996.