1954 ⟶ CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Guatemalan Government
The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a...
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🇮🇷 CIA and MI6 Orchestrate Iranian Coup
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 assists a royalist coup that restores Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power as the Shah of Iran and ousts Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq (Operation Ajax). The coup was organized because of Iranian nationalization of the oil industry and fears of Iran joining the Soviet camp.⟶
IranCIAMI6CoupOperation AjaxCold WarOilMiddle EastNationalism
🇬🇹 CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Guatemalan Government
The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup. An unstable rightist regime installs itself. Opposition leads to a guerrilla war with Marxist rebels in which major human rights abuses are committed on all sides. Nevertheless, the regime survives until the end of the Cold War.⟶
GuatemalaCIACoupCold WarLatin AmericaHuman RightsInterventionismGuerrilla War
🗳️ Castillo Armas Elected President of Guatemalan Junta
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas is elected president of the junta that overthrew the administration of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.⟶
GuatemalaPoliticsCoupCold WarLatin AmericaCastillo ArmasDictatorship
✈️ CIA B-26 Shot Down in Indonesia
On a bombing mission in support of the anti-Sukarno Permesta Rebellion, a B-26 bomber supplied by the CIA is shot down in Ambon, Indonesia. The pilot, US citizen Allen Lawrence Pope is captured and imprisoned.⟶
CIAIndonesiaPermesta RebellionCold WarCovert OperationsInterventionismSoutheast AsiaWarUS
⚔️ Guatemalan Civil War Begins
🪖 Military Coup in Peru
Peruvian General Juan Velasco Alvarado overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in a military coup.⟶
PerucoupmilitaryLatin AmericapoliticsgovernmentCold Warsocialism