Jacobo Arbenz Guzman Biography and Timeline

Birth of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

Birth of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

Constitution of Guatemala

Arbenz assumes the presidency after Guatemalas first-ever universal-suffrage election, marking the first peaceful transition of power in Guatemalas history

Role range: 1951-1954

Election

Campaigns as a reformer and wins 60% of the vote by promising to make Guatemala an economically independent, capitalist state that would shed its colonial-era dependence on the US. Arbenz assumes the presidency after Guatemalas first-ever universal-suffrage election, marking the first peaceful transition of power in Guatemalas history

Role range: 1951-1954

Independence of Guatemala

Campaigns as a reformer and wins 60% of the vote by promising to make Guatemala an economically independent, capitalist state that would shed its colonial-era dependence on the US

Role range: 1951-1954

President of Guatemala

Appointed President of Guatemala

Role range: 1951-1954

UCAS

Guatemala becomes a founder member of the Union of Central American States

Role range: 1951-1954

Legislation

Enacts an agrarian reform program modeled on the 1862 Homestead Act in the US, the new law gives the Government power to expropriate only uncultivated portions of large plantations

Role range: 1951-1954

Reform of Land Ownership

Enacts an agrarian reform program modeled on the 1862 Homestead Act in the US, the new law gives the Government power to expropriate only uncultivated portions of large plantations

Role range: 1951-1954

Coup

Supports Operation PBSUCCESS, the CIA-backed overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

Role range: 1951-1954

Death of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

Death of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman