mala, lead by the
             soldier, and president of Guatemala, Jacobo (1951-54) whose nationalistic economic and
             social reforms singled out groups of conservative landowners, and conservative elements
             in the army, and U.S. companies stationed in Guatemala. The son of a Swiss pharmacist
             who had emigrated to Guatemala, Arbenz was educated at the National Military
             Academy of Guatemala. He later joined a group of leftist army officers that overthrew
             the Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944. In March 1951
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