Soon afterwards, his daughter Arabella committed suicide in Bogotá, an incident that badly affected Árbenz. Following her funeral, the Árbenz family remained indefinitely in Mexico City, while Árbenz himself spent some time in France and Switzerland, with the ultimate objective of settling down in Mexico. On one of his visits to Mexico, Árbenz contracted a serious illness, and by the end of 1970 he was very ill. He died soon after. Historians disagree as to the manner of his death: Roberto Garcia Ferreira stated that he died of a heart attack while taking a bath, while historian Cindy Forster wrote that he committed suicide.
Daughter's suicide and death
Jacobo Árbenz
Jacobo Árbenz | Daughter's suicide and death
Yes, his  daughter Arabella Yes. His daughter Arabella committed suicide Yes, his daughter Arabella committed suicide in Bogotá. Yes, his daughter Arabella.
what is operation pbfortune?
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It was a covert United States operation to overthrow the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz
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where did the place get its name?
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The name "Guatemala" comes from the Nahuatl word "Cuauhtēmallān" , or "place of many trees".
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name a few literatures associated with nahuatl?
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Chalco written by Chimalpahin, from Tlaxcala by Diego Muñoz Camargo, from Mexico-Tenochtitlan by Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc and those of Texcoco by Fernando Alva Ixtlilxochitl
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when did the person against whom the operation was intended become president?
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March 15, 1951
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was he ever exiled?
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Yes, Árbenz and his family were the victims of a CIA-orchestrated and intense defamation campaign that led them to exile
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where did he spend his exile period?
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Paris, Prague, Montevideo, Uruguay
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is he alive?
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No, he died in 1970
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what was his ideology?
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To increase Guatemala's economic and political independence
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is there any pop culture reference on him?
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The Guatemalan movie "The Silence of Neto" and some books like "American Propaganda, Media, And The Fall Of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman" by Zachary Fisher (2014), as well as New York Times Best Seller "The Devil's Chessboard" by Author David
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did anyone from his family attempted suicide?
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In October 1995, Árbenz's remains were eventually repatriated to Guatemala, accompanied by his widow María. The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala awarded him with a posthumous decoration soon after.
Jacobo Árbenz | Daughter's suicide and death
Soon afterwards, his daughter Arabella committed suicide in Bogotá, an incident that badly affected Árbenz. Following her funeral, the Árbenz family remained indefinitely in Mexico City, while Árbenz himself spent some time in France and Switzerland, with the ultimate objective of settling down in Mexico. On one of his visits to Mexico, Árbenz contracted a serious illness, and by the end of 1970 he was very ill. He died soon after. Historians disagree as to the manner of his death: Roberto Garcia Ferreira stated that he died of a heart attack while taking a bath, while historian Cindy Forster wrote that he committed suicide.
Jacobo Árbenz | Daughter's suicide and death
After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, a representative of the Fidel Castro government asked Árbenz to come to Cuba, to which he readily agreed, sensing an opportunity to live with fewer restrictions on himself. He flew to Havana in July 1960, and, caught up in the spirit of the recent revolution, began to participate in public events. His presence so close to Guatemala once again increased the negative coverage he received in the Guatemalan press. He was offered the leadership of some revolutionary movements in Guatemala but refused, as he was pessimistic about the outcome. In 1965 Árbenz was invited to the Communist Congress in Helsinki.
Jacobo Árbenz | Daughter's suicide and death
The family was arrested and taken to jail. While awaiting court sentencing, Alejandro tried to commit suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of the courthouse when he was being taken to testify. He survived, however, with serious health complications. Arquímedes and his two older sons, Alejandro and Daniel, were convicted of the crimes, along with three other accomplices. The youngest son, Guillermo, who had escaped from the family long before they were arrested, avoided justice by leaving the country.
Puccio family | Punishment
The Guatemalan movie "The Silence of Neto" (1994), filmed on location in Antigua Guatemala, takes place during the last months of the government of Árbenz. It follows the life of a fictional 12-year-old boy who is sheltered by the Árbenz family, set against a backdrop of the struggle in which the country is embroiled at the time. The story of Árbenz's life and subsequent overthrow in the CIA sponsored coup d'état has been the subject of several books, notably "PBSuccess: The CIA's covert operation to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz June–July 1954" by Mario Overall and Daniel Hagedorn (2016), "American Propaganda, Media, And The Fall Of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman" by Zachary Fisher (2014), as well as New York Times Best Seller "The Devil's Chessboard" by Author David Talbot (Harper Collins 2015).
Jacobo Árbenz | In popular culture
After years of suffering depression due to lack of serotonin and dealing with a separation from his wife, on Sunday June 1, 1997, Carrion telephoned his family members, colleagues and long-time friends José Agustín and Jorge Fons (leaving a message in his answering machine) while he watched a soccer match on TV, mixing pills with alcohol before committing suicide by cutting his feet arteries causing a massive and fatal hemorrhage.
Luis Carrión Beltrán | Death
On August 12, 1969, weeks after his publication went bankrupt and he was heavily indebted to loan sharks and had cashed large checks without funds, the inveterate bachelor committed suicide in the Caracas apartment that he shared with his sister Rosa Margarita Quevedo. He shot himself in the right temple with a 38 caliber revolver. Next to his body was found a letter to "the competent authorities and to public opinion" saying that "absolutely no one should be blamed for his death." He "begged forgiveness from anyone he may have offended in any way." Another letter was addressed to his sister, who heard the gunshot in his bedroom while she was in the kitchen.
Miguel Ángel Quevedo | Introduction
Suddenly, Ignacio is brought in by other boys, who lay him on the sofa. He is dead - murdered by Carlos because Carlos could not stand Ignacio's forcing him to face reality. The immediate assumption is that Ignacio committed suicide. However, Doña Pepita admits to Carlos that she knows that he, Carlos, murdered him but can't confirm it. She says, "It occurred to me to get up and go to the windowsill. I didn't do it. But if I had, I would have seen someone climb the stairs of the slide with the body of Ignacio, unconscious or dead. Later, from above, the body would fall, without thinking about the eyes of others...
En la ardiente oscuridad | Synopsis
In September 2013, Artush Margaryan, Gurgen Margaryan's father, was hospitalized. According to Armenian news sources, Margaryan had attempted to commit suicide by repeatedly stabbing himself in the stomach. He underwent surgery at Malatia Medical Center in Yerevan and, due to previous complications, his condition was originally listed as critical. Over the next few days, his condition was upgraded to stable. The sources have yet to give a reason for the suicide attempt.
Gurgen Margaryan | Father's suicide attempt
He committed suicide on December 7, 1987 at age 49, just three months after having been dismissed from the government on September 14, in a cabinet reorganization that followed a coup attempt.
Jaime Ongpin | Introduction
He survived an assassination attempt on June 1, 2006 when he was able to get out of his Hummer H2 that exploded while boarding it inside the Batangas Capitol Grounds. His driver and bodyguard were killed during the explosion.
Armando Sanchez | Assassination attempt
Severely depressed following his wife's death in 1992, Timerman suffered failing health in his last years, but continued to fight for press freedom. He died of a heart attack in Buenos Aires on 11 November 1999.
Jacobo Timerman | Death
Caicedo had mentioned that to live past the age of 25 was madness and he was loyal to what he said then on March 4, 1977. In the afternoon he died, he received a volume of his recently published book ""Que viva la música!". He took 60 pills of secobarbital. Analyzing his death, Alberto Fuguet says:
Andrés Caicedo | Suicide
As a young man, Sampedro jumped into the sea from rocks near his home, a fishing village in the northern Spanish region of Galicia. Misjudging the water's depth, he struck his head on the seabed. He sustained a spinal cord injury, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Sampedro applied to Spain's lower courts, its higher courts, and the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg to legally end his life. His argument hinged on the fact that he was sure of his decision to die. However, owing to his paralysis, he was physically unable to commit suicide without help.
Ramón Sampedro | Demand for suicide
Jacinto was born in Barcelona in 1985. Around 2002, Jacinto tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a metro train in Barcelona. She survived the attempt but was left a paraplegic. Following the accident, she got treatment for mental illness. Some of her physical rehabilitation took place at Instituto Guttmann. In 2012, she worked for DKV Seguros.
Elena Jacinto Vélez | Personal
After resigning due to the coup organized by the United Fruit Company and the United States Department of State, the Árbenz family remained for 73 days at the Mexican embassy in Guatemala, which was crowded with almost 300 exiles. When they were finally allowed to leave the country, Jacobo Arbenz was publicly humiliated at the airport because the liberationist authorities made the former president strip before the cameras, claiming that he was carrying jewelry he had bought for his wife at Tiffany's in New York City, using funds from the presidency; no jewelry was found during the hour-long interrogation. The Arbenz family embarked into exile, going first to México, then to Canada, where they went to pick up Arabella who was attending school there, and then on to Switzerland via the Netherlands.
Arabella Árbenz | Family humiliation and exile
On December 19, 2011, Arredondo's surviving son, Brian, died by suicide after battling depression and drug addiction ever since his brother's death. He was 24 years old at the time. Since Brian's death, the Arredondos have dedicated themselves to attending suicide groups sessions and conferences, especially related to military-related suicides. Both have worked with elected officials in the City of Boston and Commonwealth of Massachusetts to change systems regarding suicide policy.
Carlos Arredondo | Brian Arredondo
According to some close people, it was said that Prieto had expressed judgement that if he passed fifty years of age without having achieved some great discovery in his specialty, he would commit suicide, a statement which no-one took seriously. However, at midday of May 22, 1935 in house number 2 of Génova Street, Mexico City, when he was alone, he tragically fulfilled the promise that he had made himself. However, according to his family, the reasons for his suicide were others.
Sotero Prieto Rodríguez | Death
During the news conference, he also addressed reports in European media that he had attempted suicide, saying that those reports "were not even close to reality". He had been briefly hospitalized when he became concerned about the condition of his heart, but was released the same day after being given a clean bill of health.
Seve Ballesteros | Late career and retirement
Castillo never recovered from his son's death and committed suicide by hanging himself in his home in La Paz in October 1997. He was only 31 years old and was survived by his wife María del Carmen Crespo and their children. The Bolivian football association announced a month of mourning after his death, and the derby game between his former clubs The Strongest and Bolívar was postponed. In Argentina there was a minutes silence at the game between his former club Platense and Gimnasia de Jujuy where the players wore black armbands.
Ramiro Castillo | Death
On the afternoon on July 26, 2006, Marques told his parents that he would be having friends over for a barbecue, and had them leave the apartment for the day since he wanted to impress a girl. However, he had made plans to commit suicide through smoke inhalation by locking himself in his bathroom with two barbecue grills, and had posted on a forum asking for help killing himself. While some people in the thread pleaded him to stop, others gave him the advice he wanted; after Marques reported he couldn't stand the heat inside the bathroom, a retired firefighter told him to lay face down with a damp towel over himself to make it more comfortable.
Yoñlu | Death
Martyr, who died at the stake in 1665, at Córdoba. Daniel Levi de Barrios celebrates him in verse in the prologue to his allegorical comedy "Contra la Verdad no ay Fuerça. Panegirico a los tres biena venturados mártires Abraham Athias, Yahacob Rodriguez Caseres, y Raquel Nuñez Fernandez, que fueron quemados vivos en Cordova por santificar la unidad divina, en 16. de Tammuz, año de 5425 (1665)", Amsterdam (no date).
Caceres family | Jacob (Yahacob) Rodriguez Caceres
Urondo's assassins were convicted in 2011. Juan Agustín Oyarzábal Navarro, Eduardo Smahá Borzuk ("Ruso"), Alberto Rodríguez Vázquez (“Pájaro Loco”), and Celustiano Lucero (“Mono”) received the maximum sentence. Dardo Migno received 12 years in prison. From the trial it was determined that Urondo did not commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, but rather died from a skull fracture caused by a blow to the head with a gun handle that policeman Celustiano Lucero administered. Lucero confessed to this act during the defense.
Francisco Urondo | Reparations
Despite the coroner's ruling that Vélez committed suicide to avoid the shame of bearing an illegitimate child, some authors have theorized that this was not entirely true. In the book "From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture", Rosa-Linda Fregoso wrote that Vélez was known for her defiance of contemporary moral convention, and that it seems unlikely that she could not have reconciled having a child out of wedlock. Fregoso believes that in the final year of her life, Vélez exhibited signs of extreme mania and depression. Fregoso goes on to speculate that Vélez's death may have been the result of an untreated mental illness such as bipolar disorder.
Lupe Vélez | Alternate theories and urban legend
Through this entire period, coverage of Árbenz in the Guatemalan press was very negative, influenced largely by the CIA's campaign. The family then initiated a long journey in exile that would take them first to Mexico, then to Canada, where they went to pick up Arabella (the Árbenzs' oldest daughter), and then to Switzerland via the Netherlands and Paris. They hoped to obtain citizenship in Switzerland based on Árbenz's Swiss heritage. However, the former president did not wish to renounce his Guatemalan nationality, as he felt that such a gesture would have marked the end of his political career. Árbenz and his family were the victims of a CIA-orchestrated and intense defamation campaign that lasted from 1954 to 1960.
Jacobo Árbenz | Beginning of exile
On June 18, 1963, Armendáriz committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a gun he had smuggled into the hospital. He was 51 years old. He is buried in the "" cemetery in Mexico City, Mexico.
Pedro Armendáriz | Illness and death
When Estrada Cabrera found out about this, he put the receipt under his son's dinner plate and waited for his reaction. When Francisco came down for dinner, he saw the receipt and turned pale. Without saying a word, he left the dining room and shot himself in his room.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera | Suicide of his children
In the middle of what was assumed to be a psychotic episode, Gómez Jattin jumped to death in front of a running bus on May 22, 1997. It has never been clear whether his death was accidental or a suicide.
Raúl Gómez Jattin | Life
When he did not respond, she immediately rushed him to the nearby Antipolo Doctors Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. At present, the cause of Cielo’s death remains unknown. This led to speculations of suicide precipitated by threats which allegedly came from the son of Governor Luis "Chavit" Singson, Ronald due to him being too close to Lovi Poe. These facts were never discussed or even became and angle for the police to dig more into the case because of their fear of getting caught up with the influence of Governor Singson. His wake was held in his home for three days then his remains were brought to the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Baguio, where it stayed for a day.
Marky Cielo | Death
They had one daughter, Mary Jennifer Selznick (1954–1976), who committed suicide by jumping from a 20th-floor window in Los Angeles on May 11, 1976.
David O. Selznick | Personal life
On February 17, 2009 Lall jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge in a suicide attempt but survived. Lall stated that he was bipolar and off his medicine.
Justin Lall | Suicide Attempt
Likewise, members of Allende's immediate family including his wife and his daughter, have never disputed that it was a suicide. A further example of pre-2011 controversializing is found in Chilean doctor Luis Ravanal's 2008 article published in the magazine "El Periodista" stating that Allende's wounds were "not compatible" with suicide. Asked to comment on Dr. Ravanal's hypothesis, the Chilean congresswoman Isabel Allende, the President's daughter, said that the suicide version is the correct one.
Death of Salvador Allende | Controversy
Barrera later attributed his survival to a bulletproof vest he had recently begun to wear. After recovering from his injuries, Barrera took his two children into exile in Costa Rica. "I have had to explain the truth to my children", he stated in a November open letter. "The people of their country who are conspicuous for their ideas of freedom are assassinated."
Byron Barrera | 1990 assassination attempt
He was the winner of the prestigious 1987 "Letras de Oros" (Golden Letters) contest, judged by the Mexican poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Rosales committed suicide in Miami in 1993, at the age of 47. Before doing so, he destroyed most of his work. Two novels survived: "El Juego de la Viola" (1967) and "Boarding Home" (1987). In 2013, the Cuban writers Elizabeth Mirabal and Carlos Velazco published the book "Talking about Guillermo Rosales" (Editorial Silueta). "Boarding Home" was translated into English by Anna Kushner as "The Halfway House" and published by New Directions in 2009, featuring a preface by Jose Manuel Prieto.
Guillermo Rosales | Biography
His father attempted to raise a ransom to save him, but was not able to appease the government in time to do so, thus failing to secure the release of his son. Others recalled the gruesome events that transpired after the government's failure to break José's resolve on the evening of 10 February 1928: "Consequently they cut the bottom of his feet and obliged him to walk around the town toward the cemetery. They also at times cut him with a machete until he was bleeding from several wounds. He cried and moaned with pain, but he did not give in.
José Sánchez del Río | Torture and death
On 28 October 1990, Gervasio had to assist to the Appeals Court, in order to confront the woman who had accused him of sexual abuse; however, two days before, his body was found hanging, in an abandoned house of Talagante, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was reported he had committed suicide, but Gervasio's sister, Blanca Viera, managed to prompt an investigation on the matter. In 1996, a case was opened, but it was dismissed two years later because evidence could not be found to prove the involvement of third parties.
Gervasio | Death
Jacobo had originally desired to be an economist or an engineer, but since the family was now impoverished, he could not afford to go to a university. He initially did not want to join the military, but there was a scholarship available through the "Escuela Politécnica" for military cadets. He applied, passed all of the entrance exams, and entered as a cadet in 1932. His father committed suicide two years after Árbenz entered the academy.
Jacobo Árbenz | Early life
On 30 April 2015, Fonesca was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head at a house owned by his mother in Belize City. His death was ruled a suicide.
David Fonseca (politician) | Death
In the beginning of 1947, Lara fell ill as the consequence of a fistula. Doctors tried to cure him with various treatments to no avail. His paternal uncle Julián Lara Calderón wanted to take him to the U.S. to seek treatment, but he was denied a visa, so he went to Lima, Peru, but they expelled him from the country due to his affiliation with the communist party. He returned to Guayaquil, where he died on a Sunday, November 16, 1947, at his home, at around 1pm in the afternoon.
Joaquín Gallegos Lara | Death
Insfrán has two daughters with Teresa Baldus, Sofia and Gianninna. The couple also had a son, Gildo Miguel Insfrán, who committed suicide on August 5, 2003, at the age of seventeen. He shot himself in the right temple with a 9mm pistol. The motive for the suicide has never been publicly clarified.
Gildo Insfrán | Personal life
In the end, Angel Rivero-Méndez suffered from severe depression. On February 23, 1930, he committed suicide by shooting himself in his house in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. His remains are buried in the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ángel Rivero Méndez | Death
Ricardo Alfonso Cerna (1956 – December 19, 2003) was a Guatemalan immigrant to the United States known for committing suicide in 2003 with a gun in an interrogation room in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's office in Muscoy, California. The room's video recording system was running and recorded the event. He was 47 years old.
Ricardo Cerna | Introduction
Later in 2013, police has said the main line of investigation was suicide, considering allegations from friends that he was depressive.
Jorge Selarón | Biography
Later that day, Allende committed suicide, according to an investigation conducted by a Chilean court with the assistance of international experts in 2011.
Salvador Allende | Introduction
Sousa began to struggle with depression during his final years. On May 5, 2013, after a discussion with his wife, she left their house in Itapoã with their two children; after returning, she found Sousa hanging from their bedroom ceiling with a belt around his neck. The police ruled his death as a suicide. Sousa's brother Lahiri Galvão, however, claimed on an interview that he found "very unlikely" that he was driven to suicide merely because of the argument with his wife, and his former Nove Mil Anjos bandmate Champignon (who himself committed suicide four months after Sousa) stated that "for a while, Peu had lost his faith in life".
Peu Sousa | Suicide
Another source states that at the time of his execution, he barricaded himself in his cell, so they had to break down the door with a battering ram to lead him to the place of execution. However, he jumped out with intentions of snatching a rifle of the nearest man, but was mortally wounded by a bullet to the chest.
Victoriano Ramírez | Downfall
On the way back, Arana's convoy was intercepted by a small force led by Árbenz. A shootout ensued, killing three men, including Arana. Arana's supporters in the military rose up in revolt, but they were leaderless, and by the next day the rebels asked for negotiations. The coup attempt left approximately 150 dead and 200 wounded. Many of Arana's supporters, including Carlos Castillo Armas, were exiled. The details of the incident were not made public. In a speech on 21 July, Arévalo made a speech describing Arana's death. He suggested that Arana had flirted with conspiring against the president with people hostile to Arévalo, but had eventually refused to overthrow the government, and been assassinated for his refusal.
Francisco Javier Arana | Death
After resigning due to the coup organized by the United Fruit Company and the United States Department of State, the Árbenz Vilanova family remained for 73 days at the Mexican embassy in Guatemala, which was crowded with almost 300 exiles. When they were finally allowed to leave the country, Jacobo Arbenz was publicly humiliated at the airport when the liberationist authorities made the former president strip before the cameras, claiming that he was carrying jewelry he had bought for his wife at Tiffany's in New York City, using funds from the presidency. No jewelry was found during the hour-long interrogation.
Maria Cristina Vilanova | Humiliation and exile
One day the teenage Agron found the body of his stepmother, who had committed suicide by hanging herself. Agron began to get into trouble and was sent to the Industrial School of Mayagüez.
Salvador Agron | Early years
The two security guards filed a police report against Abou-Nehra, while Abou-Nehra himself returned to his room. By the time police arrived at the hotel, Abou-Nehra was laid out on the floor of his hotel room with a gunshot wound. Abou-Nehra was taken first to San Ignacio's Loma Luz Hospital, and then Belize City's Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where he was declared dead at 7 AM the following morning. His family expressed suspicion that he would have committed suicide, and requested to have their own forensic pathologist observe the autopsy at KNMH. Pathologist Mario Estradaban declined comment. He was survived by a daughter Madison, as well as his mother Maria and sister Rachelle.
Chayben Abou-Nehra | Death
The incident was ultimately ruled a suicide.
Itzcoatl Ocampo | Death
Díaz Pacheco was shot dead in the unsuccessful attempt.
Raimundo Díaz Pacheco | Introduction
He did not name the assassins, but suggested that they were members of the conservative opposition. He declared five days of national mourning in Arana's honor. Prior to making this speech, Arévalo shared the text with his ministers. Árbenz and a few others had disagreed with its thrust, and suggested that the entire truth be told; however, they were overruled by the majority of the ministers. Historian Piero Gleijeses stated that if Arana had attempted a coup without delivering an ultimatum, he would likely have succeeded. However, his overconfidence in his hold over the military, as well as his lingering desire to take power in a legitimate manner, led to his effort being sabotaged before it truly began.
Francisco Javier Arana | Death
He resigned within several months because of that and his health problems. Popular discontent led to a catchphrase: "Al pueblo de España no le manden esa araña" ("To the people of Spain, do not send that spider"). He died in Mexico City of colorectal cancer.
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | Later life
The other parachutists committed suicide to avoid capture after an additional four-hour battle with the SS.
Jan Kubiš | Attempted capture of the parachutists
It was reported on December 11, 2013 that Jauregui had suffered a stroke in Jalisco, Mexico, and been declared braindead. He died later that day, after a short period in a coma.
Javier Jáuregui | Death
Escobar suffered gunshots to the leg and torso, and a fatal gunshot through the ear. It has never been proven who actually fired the final shot into his ear, or determined whether this shot was made during the gunfight or as part of a possible execution, with wide speculation remaining regarding the subject. Some of Escobar's relatives believe that he had committed suicide. His two brothers, Roberto Escobar and Fernando Sánchez Arellano, believe that he shot himself through the ear. In a statement regarding the topic, the duo stated that Pablo "had committed suicide, he did not get killed. During all the years they went after him, he would say to me every day that if he was really cornered without a way out, he would 'shoot himself through the ear'."
Pablo Escobar | Death
On 22 April 2019, Toresani was found dead at his house. The authorities believe that he committed suicide. According to several sources, Toresani was depressed due to being unemployed and divorcing from his wife. In the last few months, he lived apart from his family and children. His death caused commotion in Argentina, with several athletes, clubs and former teammates lamenting his death.
Julio César Toresani | Death
In 1910 both his wife, Desideria Ocampo, and his firstborn child, Diego Estrada, died of tuberculosis. Desideria Ocampo died in Nice, France after Estrada Cabrera sent her there for treatment. Diego had contracted a venereal disease while he was studying in the United States. The treatment of this, and his previous excesses led to tuberculosis; unable to cope with it, he killed himself. On November 8, 1912, Francisco Estrada, who had just returned to Guatemala from Europe where he was learning agricultural technology in Paris, found himself in a 4000 dollar debt after courting a French lady older than himself.
Manuel Estrada Cabrera | Suicide of his children
In the meantime, he had come under fire himself. On April 27, 2018, Arzú had a heart attack while playing golf in Guatemala City. He died in hospital later that day.
Álvaro Arzú | Later career and death
Not long after departing C.A.F.B. in 1998, Zoltan Horniak, keyboard player attempted suicide according to a February 2000 C.A.F.B. interview released in the Hungarian edition of the famous rock music magazine "Metal Hammer". Horniak was treated in a psychiatric facility. He has returned to C.A.F.B. in 2008.
C.A.F.B. | Attempted suicide
Jorge Batlle fainted and struck his head during an event at the Colorado party. He was hospitalized at the Sanatorio Americano hospital, and underwent surgery to stop a cerebral hemorrhage. The operation failed, and he died on 24 October 2016, one day shy of his 89th birthday. Uruguay declared a day of national mourning upon his death.
Jorge Batlle | Death
Of his 19 children, only two, Álvaro and Fabiola, survived to adulthood. Fourteen died as a consequence of their mother's Rhesus negative blood. A girl died during a blood transfusion, a boy died of dysentery at four months and another died, aged six, in a riding accident. In 1991 four of his grandchildren were killed in a car accident. Some attribute these unfortunate events to the "Domecq Curse".
Álvaro Domecq y Díez | "Curse"
Marco Antonio was one of ten siblings, two of whom, Humberto and Edgar, were appointed to public office by Governor Adame Castillo. Roberto Adame Castillo, 58, brother of Marco Antonio, committed suicide by hanging on June 7, 2013, in Cocoyoc, Morelos. On May 16, 2019, the body of Marco Adame's brother, Humberto Adame Castillo, was found in a ditch in Alpuyeca, Xochitepec. Unofficial sources say Humberto had been kidnapped. The family paid a ransom of MXN $63,000 just before he was killed. Marco Adame's nephew was robbed while at the funeral on May 17. Three men and two women were arrested in relation to the murder.
Marco Antonio Adame | Family and personal life
Árbenz was born in Quetzaltenango, the second-largest city in Guatemala, in 1913. He was the son of a Swiss German pharmacist, Hans Jakob Arbenz Gröbli, who immigrated to Guatemala in 1901. His mother, Octavia Guzmán Caballeros, was a Ladino woman from a middle-class family who worked as a primary school teacher. His family was relatively wealthy and upper-class; his childhood has been described as "comfortable". At some point during his childhood, his father became addicted to morphine and began to neglect the family business. He eventually went bankrupt, forcing the family to move to a rural estate that a wealthy friend had set aside for them "out of charity".
Jacobo Árbenz | Early life
On the morning of 24 May 1896, a housemaid found Asunción Silva dead in his bed with a gun near his body; he had shot himself in the heart the night before. There are many reasons for his suicide, including the death of his sister Elvira, the loss of almost all his work when his ship sank near a quay in the Caribbean sea, and his debts. Prior to his death, he asked his doctor confidentially to mark the exact location of his heart. He was buried in the Central Cemetery in Bogotá. Perhaps his more important legacy is the house where he lived, which has been converted into a museum, the Silva Poetry House.
José Asunción Silva | Death
Bandolim died of a heart attack, when coming back from spending the day with Pixinguinha, planning a recording project to benefit his friend. His son Sérgio Bittencourt (1941 - 1979) composed the hit song "Naquela Mesa" as a tribute to his father. Jacob had 2 mandolins, which he called "number one" and "number two". After his death they were kept in storage until 2002, when they received minor restoration. Now under the care of Instituto Jacob do Bandolim, they have been used in a few recordings again.
Jacob do Bandolim | Death and legacy
According to Isabel Allende Bussi—the daughter of Salvador Allende and currently a member of the Senate of Chile—the Allende family has long accepted that the former president shot himself, telling the BBC that: "The report conclusions are consistent with what we already believed. When faced with extreme circumstances, he made the decision of taking his own life, instead of being humiliated."
Death of Salvador Allende | Introduction
Barnabas Hospital, the first of three admissions to the ward. On June 6, 2015, at 12:15 p.m., Browder hanged himself from an air conditioning unit outside his bedroom window at his mother's home. His mother discovered his body.
Kalief Browder | Suicide attempts and death
In 1998, Yabrán was found dead in one of his houses, with a gunshot through his face which left him nearly unrecognizable.
Alfredo Yabrán | Suicide
He was killed near a pool, after Cataño stabbed him in the neck. The authorities again conducted an investigation, but nobody was arrested. The third and last victim was Miguel Ángel Beleño Mejía, who died in 2010 of a stab in the neck, acquiring a life insurance of 80 million pesos.
Esneda Ruiz Cataño | Biography
All but two of the victims (Roberto Bernardino and Carmen) had coup de grâce wounds. These two were stabbed and killed by asphyxia respectively. The family was originally from Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and had bought the house from the former Governor of Jalisco and Secretariat of Agriculture, Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez. Though the family shared a last name with the politician, he claimed that they were not blood-related to him and were only long-time friends. The family had moved to the new home two months prior to the incident because one of their relatives was kidnapped. When the bodies were found, investigators concluded that the victims were killed 36 and 48 hours prior to their discovery.
Jorge Luis Mendoza Cárdenas | Early life and career
Returning to his hometown in 1890 he tried, unsuccessfully, to establish his own art school. He continued to exhibit successfully, but became depressed at having his efforts to launch the school repeatedly thwarted. He drowned in Guanabara Bay, apparently while attempting to launch a boat, although his family and the press suggested that it may have been suicide. The body was not recovered for almost two weeks, so he was buried without an autopsy.
Antônio Rafael Pinto Bandeira | Biography
Dsida suffered from heart failure and in 1938, he got cold. Therefore, he was hospitalized for months in Kolozsvár, but unfortunately he died in his sleep at the age of 31.
Jenő Dsida | Death
The "Gulf Daily News" reported on October 20, 2005, that there were signs that the mental health of Al-Dossary was deteriorating. The story was based on notes from Colangelo-Bryan, which US intelligence officials had declassified on October 19, 2005. According to Colangelo-Byran: According to a report in the "Washington Post" on November 1, 2005, Al Dossary attempted to commit suicide on October 15, whilst taking a washroom break during a visit by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan. Colangelo-Bryan described finding Al Dossary hanging unconscious from a noose in the washroom, with blood pouring from a large wound in his right arm.
Juma al-Dossary | Suicide attempts
As soon as Jerónimo Izquierdo met his sentence in 1986, he returned to Puerto Hurraco aiming to avenge the death of his elderly mother, Isabel Izquierdo Caballero, who died two years earlier in a fire in her house on the street Carrera No. 9, on October 18, 1984. The Izquierdo family blamed Antonio Cabanillas, brother of Amadeo, for being the author of the crime; even though the police investigation did not find perpetrator. That is the reason why Jerónimo tried to kill Antonio with a knife, seriously injuring him, although he managed to survive. As a result Jerónimo Izquierdo entered the psychiatric hospital on August 8, 1986, and died nine days later.
Puerto Hurraco massacre | Background
After suffering a heart attack on 30 March he was hospitalized in Paris. His death came in the same month as other Basque prisoners' deaths. His family complained that they had only learned of his death when they came to visit him.
Francisco Javier López Peña | Death
Castro Díaz-Balart killed himself in Havana on 1 February 2018, aged 68. He had previously received outpatient care for depression. The report of his suicide by the Cuban government was described as "unusually public." Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart's first cousin Gabriel Diaz-Balart had also earlier committed suicide as a result of depression. At his death he still held his positions with the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the Council of State.
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart | Death
Suffering from cancer, Mistral committed suicide with a gunshot while living in Mexico City, Mexico.
Jorge Mistral | Death
Their appearance was scrutinized by a policeman, who became suspicious because the Elevator was ostensibly out of service. Calling for reinforcements, a group of officers detained and arrest the group of men, which included Afonso Costa, António Egas Moniz, Álvaro Poppe, Francisco Correia de Herédia (the Viscount of Ribeira Brava) and others. While José Maria de Alpoim was able to escape to Spain, in all 100 people arrested during the crackdown, including the Viscounts of Pedralva and Ameal, João Pinto dos Santos, Cassiano Neves and Batalha de Freitas. The coup was crushed.
Municipal Library Elevator Coup | Attempted coup
Family members reported that the officials did not deliver him the medicines that he had to take by prescription that they had sent him. His sister Yhorlenys Aular also complained that the officials claimed that García was only "pretending" to be ill and that they did not provide him first aid. Up until 17 August, SEBIN was reported to have refused to transfer him to a healthcare center. However, the following day, he was transferred to the Central Hospital of San Cristóbal, Táchira. Justice First affirmed that García "was only transferred to a health center when there was no possibility of doing anything to improve his health".
Carlos Andrés García (politician) | Detention and death
Buso survived an apparent assassination attempt in 2014, when a bomb exploded under his car. No one was injured in the attack, as the vehicle was unoccupied at the time, but Buso said he was shaken by the attack, and that he had not previously received any threats.
Uriel Buso | Biography
On November 25, 2010 the Ex-President was taken to the emergency room at the Center for Advanced Medicine Dr. Abel González, after falling from his bed and hitting his head causing a heavy internal hemorrhage. On the early morning of December 26, 2010 he suffered a heart attack and died after being in a coma for 37 days.
Salvador Jorge Blanco | Death
Four years after his wife's death, Thompson committed suicide in Buenos Aires by a gunshot to his head.
Carlos Thompson | Death
That same year in Mendoza, his friend Paco Urondo who fought in the Montoneros, was murdered by Juan Agustín Oyarzábal Navarro, Eduardo Smahá Borzuk ("Ruso"), Alberto Rodríguez Vázquez (“Pájaro Loco”), and Celustiano Lucero (“Mono”). They were convicted in 2011 and received the maximum sentence. Dardo Migno received 12 years in prison. From the trial it was determined that Urondo did not commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill, but rather died from a skull fracture caused by a blow to the head with a gun handle that policeman Celustiano Lucero administered. Lucero confessed to this act during the defense. His other daughter, Patricia, is currently an Argentine political leader.
Rodolfo Walsh | The death of his daughter Victoria and of his friend Urondo
On July 26, 1957, Castillo Armas was shot dead by a leftist sympathizer in the presidential palace in Guatemala City. The assassin, Romeo Vásquez Sánchez, was a member of the presidential guard; he approached Castillo Armas as he was walking with his wife and shot him twice. Castillo Armas died instantly; Vásquez was reported to have fled to a different room and committed suicide. There is no conclusive information about whether Vásquez was acting alone or whether he was a part of a larger conspiracy. Elections were held following Castillo Armas's death in which the government-aligned Miguel Ortiz Passarelli won a majority.
Carlos Castillo Armas | Death and legacy
Natalicio died in Mexico on 6 December 1966, of a heart attack. He had been invited back to Paraguay and was to leave that very day. His wife Lydia committed suicide after finding his body. (She swallowed painkillers and cut her wrists.)
Juan Natalicio González | Death
After Árbenz's resignation, his family remained for 73 days at the Mexican embassy in Guatemala City, which was crowded with almost 300 exiles. During this period, the CIA initiated a new set of operations against Árbenz, intended to discredit the former president and damage his reputation. The CIA obtained some of Árbenz's personal papers, and released parts of them after doctoring the documents. The CIA also promoted the notion that individuals in exile, such as Árbenz, should be prosecuted in Guatemala. When they were finally allowed to leave the country, Árbenz was publicly humiliated at the airport when the authorities made the former president strip before the cameras, claiming that he was carrying jewelry he had bought for his wife, María Cristina Vilanova, at Tiffany's in New York City, using funds from the presidency; no jewelry was found but the interrogation lasted for an hour.
Jacobo Árbenz | Beginning of exile
Arabella Árbenz Vilanova (January 15, 1940 – October 5, 1965) was a Guatemalan fashion model and actress, and the daughter of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. After being sent to Canada to study in a boarding school, she joined her family in exile after her father was ousted from power in June 1954. She suffered along with her family the difficult conditions of their exile, until she decided to remain in Paris to become a fashion model. After an intense love life and drug abuse, she killed herself in front of her last lover, Mexican bullfighter Jaime Bravo, in Colombia.
Arabella Árbenz | Introduction
at Naval Hospital, aged 62. He was buried at Pigo Cemetery in western Hagåtña.
Ricardo Bordallo | Suicide
In February 1961, Galateo he was killed for your son David José, in a familiar discussion. He wanted to kill his wife, and his son came to his defense, shooting him dead.
Alberto Galateo | Death
Laso's wife was found decapitated by a train in Amposta Station shortly after midnight on June 9, 1988. The death was considered a suicide in spite of the Camachos' suspicions about Laso. Nine months later, Laso's car fell off a 20-metre cliff while transporting Laso and his six-year-old son. Laso was unharmed, despite claiming to have fallen off the cliff and been left unconscious for 15 minutes as a result of the incident, while his son was killed and incinerated. The car insurance provided Laso with 3.5 million pesetas that he used to establish a video rental store. Miguel Camacho feared that Laso intended to kill the whole family one by one, and hired a private investigator to find evidence that Laso had actually killed his wife and child.
Ramón Laso | First murders
He attempted suicide on 12 July by shooting himself twice in the head and chest with a pistol brought to him by his son, but was only lightly wounded. The following day he refused to present himself before the court since, as he wrote to the chancellor, "the documents produced no longer leave any room for contradiction". On 17 July the Chambre des pairs condemned him to three years in prison, to return the 94,000 franc bribe and to pay a fine of the same amount to the Hospice de Paris. He was incarcerated in the prison du Luxembourg, which he had had built himself, and remained there until 13 August 1849.
Jean-Baptiste Teste | The Teste-Cubières scandal
In 2008 Carluccio attempted suicide with a pair of scissors, but survived following the intervention of his personal assistant. At the time of the incident, the media were informed that he had had an accident with a bread knife. Carluccio later described his suicide attempt as "liberating", feeling that "from that moment on, my mind changed" and stating that his subsequent admittance to the Priory clinic made him "take stock of my life, and appreciate all the good in it".
Antonio Carluccio | Personal life
In 1999 Paco Menéndez committed suicide jumping from his apartment in Sevilla. He was aged 34.
Paco Menéndez | Death
In the predawn hours of 14 November 1990, twenty-four hours before the findings of the wiretapping inquiry were to be handed in, a dynamite attack was carried out at the Diez Canseco home. An explosive was detonated moments before at a neighboring house, presumably in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Diez Canseco to the front door of his home, where a second charge was detonated. The police initially suggested it had been an attack by the Shining Path, but later evidence indicated that it had been the work of the government's Grupo Colina death squad. In 1995 his name was included at the top of a list of names accompanying a funeral floral arrangement left at the entrance of the headquarters of the Association for Human Rights.
Javier Diez Canseco | Death threats and attempts on his life
Venezuelan Vice President Elías Jaua also expressed "regret", reiterating the government's position that Brito's land "had never been expropriated". On the receipt of a private petition after his death, the Attorney General announced an investigation into whether Brito had been induced to commit suicide by continuing the hunger strike.
Franklin Brito | Death
On 17 September 2017, the councilor's family confirmed his death at the health center. Despite being considered a political prisoner and having received the benefit of house arrest as Leopoldo López and Antonio Ledezma, the order was not executed by the security forces. The government refused to allow an autopsy of the body.
Carlos Andrés García (politician) | Detention and death
Muenter tried to kill himself on the night of July 5 by slashing his wrist with a pencil eraser metal retainer. On July 6, he was dead. New York’s counterterrorism police at first believed that he was killed by an assassin sent to silence him with two bullets in the head. But the version they decided on was that Muenter ran out of a briefly opened door and jumped head-first onto the concrete floor of the jail corridor twenty feet below. Muenter's wife received a note from her husband warning that a ship bound for England would sink on the 7th of July.
Eric Muenter | Suicide
Despite being involved in several tragedies in his family's acts, Wallenda continued with his stunts. In 1978, at age 73, Wallenda attempted a walk between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in the U.S. Commonwealth of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 121 ft (37 metres) above the pavement. As a result of high winds and an improperly secured wire, he lost his balance and fell during the attempt. Wallenda was pronounced dead after his body arrived at the hospital. This was not viewed on most television stations, but a film crew from local station WAPA-TV in San Juan taped the fall with narration by anchorman Guillermo José Torres.
Karl Wallenda | Death