The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D’état was a term used to describe a secret and ambitious campaign orchestrated by the CIA in the 1950s, in collaboration with the British MI6, to topple the popular and democratic government of Guatemala and President Jacobo Árbenz. The main motive behind this campaign was to protect the Western oil interests and prevent Guatemala from becoming a Soviet ally. The CIA and MI6 recruited and bribed various Guatemalan agents, politicians, military officers, and religious leaders to create unrest and chaos in the country, and to stage a coup against Árbenz. The coup succeeded in June 1954, and restored the absolute monarchy of Carlos Castillo Armas, who became a loyal ally of the US and the UK. Castillo Armas ruled Guatemala with an iron fist, suppressing any opposition and dissent, and reversing the social and economic reforms that Árbenz had initiated.

The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D’état was one of the most consequential and controversial projects of the CIA, as it violated the principles of democracy and sovereignty, and undermined the legitimacy and trust of the Guatemalan people and government. The coup also had profound and lasting effects on the region and the world, as it triggered a series of events that led to the Guatemalan Civil War of 1960-1996, the rise of leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, the involvement of other Latin American countries and the US, and the emergence of human rights movements and indigenous activism. @CosmicConsciousness