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1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 18, 2017 by Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:55, 27 May 2017 (UTC)



In 1954, a coup d'état in Guatemala, carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in a covert operation, deposed democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz (pictured in mural). The coup ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–54, a period of representative democracy and liberal reform. The U.S. government was motivated by a Cold War predisposition to assume Árbenz was a communist, and by a massive campaign by the United Fruit Company lobbying for his overthrow. Dwight Eisenhower authorized the CIA to carry out Operation PBSUCCESS in August 1953. The CIA armed, funded, and trained a force of 480 men led by Carlos Castillo Armas which invaded Guatemala on 18 June 1954, backed by a heavy campaign of psychological warfare. Most offensives of the invasion force were defeated, but the psychological warfare and the possibility of a U.S. invasion intimidated the Guatemalan army, which eventually refused to fight. Árbenz resigned on 27 June, and Castillo Armas became president ten days later, the first in a series of authoritarian rulers in the country. The coup was widely criticized internationally, and led to long-lasting anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Not certain how to count this; military articles are frequent, political history articles outside the English speaking world are rare.
 * Main editors: Vanamonde93
 * Promoted: 19 March 2017‎
 * Reasons for nomination: This is an important article for Latin American history, as this coup had a wide-ranging impact. It also influenced U.S. foreign policy in a number of ways. 18 June would be the 63rd anniversary of the launching of the coup. This would be my second TFA.
 * Support as nominator. Vanamonde (talk) 17:56, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Support good history article. On underrepresented area too. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:11, 19 May 2017 (UTC)