60 years ago, on June 27, 1954, a covert operation carried out by the CIA overthrew the democratically elected president of Guatemala. It was one of the first large US intelligence service operations in Latin America. The coup d'état against Jacobo Árbenz, whose father had emigrated from Andelfingen (Zurich) to Guatemala, appeared also on the agenda of the Swiss diplomacy.
For this occasion, the research group of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland put together an e-dossier comprising various historical documents from the online database Dodis.
To access the e-Dossier:: 60 years Guatemalan coup d'état