Who led the military coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954?

Who led the military coup that overthrew Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954? Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas led the rebel movement that overthrew Árbenz.

Castillo Armas was a Guatemalan military officer who had gone into exile after opposing the government. With CIA backing, he became the public military leader of the force assembled for Operation PBSUCCESS. His troops entered Guatemala in June 1954, while radio broadcasts and diplomatic pressure exaggerated the scale of the uprising.

President Jacobo Árbenz resigned on June 27, 1954, after the crisis undermined his government and Guatemala’s military leadership declined to defend him fully. Castillo Armas took power after a short succession of military arrangements and became president in 1954.

The coup was not simply an isolated battlefield victory by Castillo Armas. It depended on covert American assistance, propaganda, economic pressure, and political maneuvering. The wrong options point to other Guatemalan or Caribbean military figures: Jorge Ubico was an earlier Guatemalan dictator, while Fulgencio Batista ruled Cuba.