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    the 1950 presidential election. Ydígoras previously served as the governor of the province of San Marcos. Ydígoras Fuentes was born on a coffee plantation...
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    of the presidency after staging a coup d'état against President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, under whom he served as Agriculture (1959–1960) and Defense minister...
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    inauguration of Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes who won the 1958 general elections. He was subsequently appointed as Minister of Defense under the Ydígoras Fuentes government...
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    territory. Hostilities were set in motion during the presidency of Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes on March 2, 1958. Since November 1956 the Guatemalan and Mexican...
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    military, led by Colonel Enriuqe Peralta Azurdia, which ousted the Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes administration. The military junta headed by the colonel governed...
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  • footballer) (born 1971), Mexican football goalkeeper and manager Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895–1982), president of Guatemala This disambiguation page lists...
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    out of the popular protests against the government of President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes following his election in 1958. It was led by Luis Augusto Turcios...
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    were held in 1950 and without significant opposition defeated Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, his nearest challenger, by a margin of over 50%. He took office...
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    the army. The centrist Miguel Ortiz Passarelli won a plurality in these elections, but supporters of Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, who had also been a candidate...
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  • After no candidate received 50% or more of the national vote, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was elected President by Congress on 12 February 1958, whilst an...
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    in which the government-aligned Miguel Ortiz Passarelli won a majority. However, supporters of Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, who had also been a candidate in...
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    Guatemala. The CIA considered several candidates to lead the coup. Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, the conservative candidate who had lost the 1950 election to Árbenz...
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  • The Navy was founded on 15 January 1959, by the then President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, due to the need to protect the country's marine resources, which...
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  • Guatemala. The PRDN was founded in March 1950 by General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes. Ydígoras finished as the runner-up in the November 1950 presidential...
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  • physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) 1982 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (b. 1895) 1988 – Charles Hawtrey...
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  • 1958 until March 31,1963 as the wife President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes. María Teresa Laparra de Ydígoras was the daughter of Brígido Laparra and María...
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    personal guard. After the rigged election that followed, General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes assumed power. He is celebrated for challenging the Mexican president...
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    Lázaro Chacón in 1928. In 1958, during the government of General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) financed infrastructure...
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  • Benelli, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1921) October 27 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Guatemalan general, 21st President of Guatemala (b. 1895) October...
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    his candidacy for the November presidential elections. Dictator Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, who, despite the firm opposition of the Kennedy administration...
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  • (d. 1962) 1894 – Pablo de Rokha, Chilean poet (d. 1968) 1895 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958–1963) (d. 1982) 1895 – Doris Humphrey...
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  • McGarvie-Munn's father-in-law Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was elected, on 2 March 1958, Constitutional President of Guatemala. Fuentes was incensed by illegal fishing...
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    logistical assistance were provided by the governments of General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes in Guatemala, and General Luis Somoza Debayle in Nicaragua, but...
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  • which gave victory to the civilian Miguel Ortiz Passareli against the military Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes. General Ydígoras denounced the results as electoral...
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  • From Mexico, Cobb assisted Guatemalan revolutionaries fighting Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, helping them obtain equipment. She was deported by the Guatemalan...
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  • upper-middle class who felt the revolution had gone too far. Another was Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, who had been a general under Ubico, and who had the support of...
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    Political party Elected Took office Left office Time in office 32 Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895–1982) 2 March 1958 31 March 1963 (Deposed) 5 years, 29 days...
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    Castillo Armas by a left-wing member of the presidential guard, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes prevailed in the ensuing power struggle. The continued repression...
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    1962 Senegalese coup attempt 1962 Algerian crisis Guatemala: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was overthrown by the military. Enrique Peralta Azurdia took power...
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    Sanguinetti Juan Manuel Santos Queen Sofía Jürgen Steinkrüger Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes 8 Jesuit martyrs † † - posthumous José Matías Delgado "Historia...
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