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
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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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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
After being unable to obtain citizenship in Switzerland, the Árbenz family moved to Paris, where the French government gave them permission to live for a year, on the condition that they did not participate in any political activity, then to Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. After only three months, he moved to Moscow, which came as a relief to him from the harsh treatment he received in Czechoslovakia. While traveling in the Soviet Union and its vassal states, he was constantly criticized in the press in Guatemala and the US, on the grounds that he was showing his true communist colors by going there.
Jacobo Árbenz | Europe and Uruguay
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
After a brief stay in Moscow, Árbenz returned to Prague and then to Paris. From there he separated from his wife: María traveled to ElSalvador to take care of family affairs. The separation made life increasingly difficult for Árbenz, and he slipped into depression and took to drinking excessively. He tried several times to return to Latin America, and was finally allowed in 1957 to move to Uruguay. The CIA made several attempts to prevent Árbenz from receiving a Uruguayan visa, but these were unsuccessful, and the Uruguayan government allowed Árbenz to travel there as a political refugee. Árbenz arrived in Montevideo on May 13, 1957, where he was met by a hostile "reception committee" organized by the CIA.
Jacobo Árbenz | Europe and Uruguay
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
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
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
A close friend of Árbenz, Carlos Manuel Pellecer, turned out to be a spy working for the CIA.
Jacobo Árbenz | Beginning of exile
However, he was still a figure of some note in leftist circles in the city, which partially explained the CIA's hostility. While Árbenz was living in Montevideo, his wife came to join him. He was also visited by Arévalo a year after his own arrival there. Although the relationship between Arévalo and the Árbenz family was initially friendly, it soon deteriorated due to differences between the two men. Arévalo himself was not under surveillance in Uruguay and was occasionally able to express himself through articles in the popular press. He left for Venezuela a year after his arrival to take up a position as a teacher.
Jacobo Árbenz | Europe and Uruguay
She visited with her old friends from the "defunct" "Lyceum Women's Club" which was continuing its activities in an unofficial and clandestine way. A few months later her husband, who was still in Buenos Aires, committed suicide. Grief-stricken she went to America to live with her son who was in exile. Later she returned to Madrid and died on 8 May 1952 at age 65. In 1957, a few years after her death, María Martos de Baeza and playwright Matilde Ras sponsored a fund raising effort to erect a monument in her honor in the Parque del Oeste in Madrid.
Elena Fortún | Exile
He did not return to Uruguay but died in Buenos Aires, on 18 June 1921, requesting that his remains not be repatriated to his homeland. One of the chairs of the National Academy of Letters of Uruguay was named in his honor, in recognition of his work.
Eduardo Acevedo Díaz | Death and remembrance
From 1939, after the fall of Catalonia, López-Bago was exiled to France until his death in Paris in 1972. His remains are interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
José Riquelme y López Bago | Exile and death
Arabella's death was a huge blow to both the bullfighter and Jacobo Arbenz: both would die within five years of her death.
Arabella Árbenz | Death
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
Riofrio died in exile in Peru.
Miguel Riofrío | Introduction
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
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
Subsequent to the relinquishing of his presidential office for the second time, Santos travelled in Europe, and was unable to return to Uruguay. Still aged in his early 40s, Santos died in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1889.
Máximo Santos | Later life; death in exile
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
Antokoletz remained active with the Mothers until her death in 2002. At the time of her death, she was ninety years old, making her the oldest member of the group. Sadly, she never learned the truth about what happened to Daniel, but it was assumed that he was thrown into the Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires. After her death, her family prepared a death notice that listed Daniel as one of the mourners, but it also listed him as “missing.” However, the notice of her death was never printed because of the mention of her son. Antokoletz's last wish was that her ashes were to be scattered in the Rio de la Plata, and her wish was granted.
María Adela Gard de Antokoletz | Later life
During his stay in Uruguay, Árbenz was initially required to report to the police on a daily basis; eventually, however, this requirement was relaxed somewhat to once every eight days. María Árbenz later stated that the couple was pleased by the hospitality they received in Uruguay, and would have stayed there indefinitely had they received permission to do so.
Jacobo Árbenz | Europe and Uruguay
Asturias devoted much of his political energy towards supporting the government of Jacobo Árbenz, successor to Juan José Arévalo Bermejo. Asturias was asked following his work as an ambassador to help suppress the threat of rebels from El Salvador. While his efforts were backed by the U.S. and Salvadoran governments, the rebels succeeded in invading Guatemala and overthrew Jacobo Árbenz' rule in 1954. When the government of Jacobo Árbenz fell Asturias was expelled from the country by Carlos Castillo Armas because of his support for Árbenz. He was stripped of his Guatemalan citizenship and went to live in Buenos Aires and Chile, where he spent the next eight years of his life.
Miguel Ángel Asturias | Exile and rehabilitation
Arbenz tried several times to return to Latin America, and was finally allowed to move to Uruguay in 1957 (Arbenz joined the Communist Party in that year), living in Montevideo from 1957 to 1960. Uruguay had been supportive throughout the Guatemalan revolutionary process, and became home to the two former presidents of the so-called "Guatemalan Democratic Spring". Arbenz's predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, had been in Montevideo on several prior occasions, establishing himself there between 1958 and early 1959, when he accepted a university position in Venezuela; he expressed his views through a number of newspaper articles he penned. On the other hand, Arbenz and his family, who arrived in mid-1957, had a very different experience: his communist ties, especially with José Manuel Fortuny, and forced passage through Czechoslovakia, the USSR and China, aroused suspicions.
Maria Cristina Vilanova | Humiliation and exile
Zabludovsky died of a stroke caused by dehydration at the age of 87 in Mexico City on the morning of July 2, 2015. He was buried at Mexico City's Israelite (Jewish) Cemetery that afternoon. He is survived by his wife Sara and three children
Jacobo Zabludovsky | Death
Despite having a wife and six children in Spain, he never married again but had another child. In the Soviet Union, he wrote his memoirs "Trayectoria". He died in Rome in 1968. After the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 and the change of the political situation in Spain, his remains were transferred to Spain.
Antonio Cordón García | Exile
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
Overwhelmed by his economic problems, Lisandro de la Torre committed suicide on 5 January 1939, in Buenos Aires. His ashes are now in an urn, buried in the El Salvador Cemetery of Rosario. The Dr. Julio Marc Provincial Historical Museum, also in Rosario, displays a reproduction of de la Torre's residence in 22 Esmeralda St. of Buenos Aires, with the original furniture. A meatpacking plant in Buenos Aires, famously the site of a major labor conflict in 1959, was named after him.
Lisandro de la Torre | De la Torre's death and legacy
He died in Alexandria on his way back.
Jacob Querido | Introduction
Forced into exile, Tejada died in Arica, Chile, only 2 years later, on October 4, 1938.
José Luis Tejada Sorzano | Death
Jorge Arvizu died on March 18, 2014 in Mexico City, after suffering a heart failure.
Jorge Arvizu | Death
With the arrival of Juan Perón the political and artistic censorship imposed made life increasingly difficult in Argentina and in 1963, after a 23-year stay in Buenos Aires, they moved to Rome. On 27 April 1977 they returned to Spain after almost thirty-eight years of exile. María, however, was suffering from Alzheimer's and could not recognize even her closest old friends. She spent her last years in a sanatorium in the mountains outside Madrid. She died on 13 December 1988 and is buried in the cemetery at Majadahonda just outside Madrid. On her grave are the words written by her husband: "Esta mañana, amor, tenemos veinte años" (This morning, love, we are twenty years old).
María Teresa León | Exile (1939–1977)
In the central plaza of Compostela, he had once had an iron statue of himself put up, which does not survive.
Pedro Fróilaz de Traba | Death
Following the U.S.-sponsored coup, Fortuny took refuge in the Mexican embassy for a while, before going into exile. Due to his status as a prominent communist during the Cold War, he was kept under surveillance by the Central Intelligence Agency. During his exile, he spent time in Brazil, Uruguay, and Cuba. He died in Mexico City at age 89, from heart failure.
José Manuel Fortuny | Exile and death
Death [edit] He returned to Costa Rica to fall Carrillo, and stayed away from politics, devoted to the management of their coffee plantations. Died in San José, Costa Rica, on 26 October 1862.
Joaquín Mora Fernández | Exile
After being rejected for entry by Switzerland, the Árbenz family moved to Paris, France and then to Prague, Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovak officials were uncomfortable with Arbenz, unsure if he would demand the government compensate him for shipments of Second World War-era arms that they had sold Guatemala in 1954. After only three months, the family moved again, this time to Moscow, which proved a relief from the harsh treatment they encountered in Czechoslovakia. Arbenz tried to return to Latin America several times, finally being allowed to move to Uruguay in 1957 (Arbenz joined the Communist Party in that year). The Arbenz family lived in Montevideo from 1957 to 1960.
Arabella Árbenz | Seeking shelter
After the deposition of Jango on April 1, 1964 by the military, the Goulart family was forced to live in exile. Jango, Maria Thereza and their children lived in Uruguay. Later, Denise and João Vicente moved to London, while Jango and Maria Thereza went to Argentina, where Jango had business affairs. Jango died in the city of Mercedes on the night of December 6, 1976. The official version of his death is that he suffered a heart attack. This is uncertain as his body was not submitted for an autopsy and the attending physician wrote only the Spanish word "enfermedad" (sickness) as the "causa mortis" on his medical chart.
Maria Thereza Goulart | Life in exile
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
Amid the ensuing controversy between Rodríguez Zorrilla, the independent canon José Ignacio Cienfuegos, and the government, the bishop was shipped to Acapulco, which he left (via Veracruz, New York, and Le Havre) for Madrid. José Santiago Rodríguez Zorrilla died in Madrid in 1832. His remains were repatriated and buried in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago in December 1852.
José Santiago Rodríguez Zorrilla | Return, confinement, and new exile
Because of the political instability that existed in Venezuela as a result of the Federal War, he decided to leave his post and go abroad in search of better conditions for his daughter's artistic development. In this regard, on July 23, 1862, they departed together for New York, where they lived for a few years before departing for Paris. In Paris, where he died Carreño was a piano professor.
Manuel Antonio Carreño | Emigration to France
Ana Aronberg Ficher died on 27 July 1976 . Ficher settled in Buenos Aires, where he was one of the founders in 1929 of the Grupo renovación. Later, in 1947, he was also among the founders of the Argentinian Composers' League (; .
Jacobo Ficher | Life
He was appointed consul of the United Provinces by governor Manuel Dorrego, and moved back to Bordeaux to strengthen commerce with France. He resigned as consul in 1830, shortly after the first appointment of Juan Manuel de Rosas as governor, and returned to private business once more. His business began to fail, and he lived at various times in Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento and Bordeaux, before returning again to Buenos Aires. He committed suicide on June 20, 1847. He was the last surviving member of the Primera Junta.
Juan Larrea (politician) | Exile and return
He marched into exile once again. He found death in Buenos Aires in 1920. The coffin was transferred directly to the Government Palace in Asuncion for the wake.
Benigno Ferreira | Death and exile
He died in Montevideo at the age of 35, a few years before the publication of his works drew widespread praise from the literary community. The Uruguayan writer Ángel Rama marvelled at his achievement:
Julio Herrera y Reissig | Death
After a time in Spain, he returned to the U.S. and settled in New York, where he was found by a Mexican journalist in 1901. When this news reached Mexico, the current president, Porfirio Díaz, invited him to return; he did so and received various honors between 1901 and 1904. He died in New York on July 18, 1908. In 1942 the Mexican government ordered that his remains be exhumed and interred in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres () in Mexico City, where they remain.
Jaime Nunó | Later life and death
Jacobo Arbenz Vilanova (born 13 November 1946) is a politician in Guatemala. He is the son of former progressive Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who was overthrown in a CIA sponsored coup d'état in 1954. Arbenz Vilanova fled the country following the ouster of his father's government and spent almost 50 years in exile – in Mexico, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Soviet Union, Uruguay, Cuba and El Salvador, but mostly in Costa Rica – before deciding to return during the administration of Alfonso Portillo. After unsuccessfully trying to form his own political party to fight the 2003 presidential election, he was accepted as the candidate of the Christian Democracy party (DCG) after two earlier DCG presidential candidates withdrew.
Jacobo Arbenz Vilanova | Introduction
On 3 June (Gregorian 16 June) 1920 he married Ana Aronberg, then a piano student at the Odessa Conservatory. The Revolution of 1917 was followed by deteriorating conditions in Odessa and so, in order to escape famine and persecution, the family—including his father with his second wife, his youngest brother Rachmiel (who was a cellist) and a sister-in-law—fled the city, traveling at first to Poland. In 1923 they moved to Argentina, arriving on 10 February, and eventually became citizens of that country. Jacobo and Ana had two children: a son, Miguel, born on 24 June 1923, shortly after their arrival in Buenos Aires, and a daughter, Myra, born 7 February 1928.
Jacobo Ficher | 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
He died in Buenos Aires from respiratory failure, aged 90, after a downturn in health following a heart attack earlier in 2013.
José Froilán González | Death
After being deposed, Romero lived in exile in Guatemala before returning to El Salvador. He died on 27 February 2017 at the age of 92 of natural causes.
Carlos Humberto Romero | Later life and death
He died in Amsterdam, in his early forties.
Jacob Adriaensz Backer | Biography
Fernández Crespo died on 28 July 1964, a few months after leaving office . A road in the capital, Montevideo, is named after him.
Daniel Fernández Crespo | Death and legacy
Manela Bustamante died a year later in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on February 12, 2005, and is survived by her daughter and two grandsons.
Manela Bustamante | Exile, Los Garcia
Anaya died in Montevideo in 1862.
Carlos Anaya | Death
The "coup d'état" of the Uruguayan government surprised him on June 27, 1973, while residing in Venezuela, so he lived in exile for the remainder of his life. He was a member of Uruguay's "Generation of '45," also known as the "Critical Generation": Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.
Ángel Rama | Biography
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
He lived in Buenos Aires and New York City during his years in exile and died in the latter in 1873.
José Antonio Páez | Introduction
Grondona died of an aortic aneurysm at the age of 82 on July 30, 2014 at Buenos Aires, Argentina
Julio Grondona | Death
He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1938. In 1965 he moved to Argentina and became Argentine citizen. Despite rumours that he had died in November 2010, he was still alive. He died on 8 June 2019 at the age of 81. His first work in Argentina was in Crónica newspaper.
Lucho Avilés | Early Life
Báez became President again from 1876 until 1878, when he was deposed in a final coup and sent into exile to Puerto Rico, at the time a Spanish colony, where he lived his final days. He is buried in the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor.
Buenaventura Báez | Exile and death
Quevedo, who was frail and very ill when he left from his confinement in 1643, resigned from royal court definitively to retire at Torre de Juan Abad. He died in the Dominican convent of Villanueva de los Infantes, on 8 September 1645. One tale tells that his tomb was pillaged days later by a gentleman who wished to have the gold spurs with which Quevedo had been buried.
Francisco de Quevedo | Arrest and exile
Over the years he became blind and died in Paris when he was hit by a truck on October 18, 1966.
Miguel Chueca Cuartero | Exile and 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
He could only be removed by Congress, and even then only if he was found to have broken the law. When Arévalo was inaugurated as president, Arana stepped into this new position, and Árbenz was sworn in as defense minister.
Jacobo Árbenz | October revolution
Arza died in Seville on 17 July 2011, at the age of 88.
Juan Arza | 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
Following Amado Nervo's death in Montevideo, Uruguayan president Baltasar Brum ordered that his body be returned to Mexico aboard the cruiser "Uruguay" and Nervo was interred November 14, 1919, in the "Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres" of Panteón de Dolores, in Mexico City.
Amado Nervo | 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
He died in the Rímac District of Lima, Peru.
Jorge Bravo de Rueda | Introduction
Once the Mexican Revolution came to an end, the socialist government deprived him and his family of their properties. His former house is now the Town Hall of his homeplace, Zumpango del Río.
Jacobo Harrotian | Legacy
During the last days of his life, Sáenz Peña remarked “I have lost almost all my friends, but I have governed for the Republic.” He died during his six-year term as president on August 9, 1914, due to complications related to diabetes. Sáenz Peña is known today for his electoral reform and his fierce determination to protect the interests of Argentina abroad. His daughter married Carlos Saavedra Lamas, academic and politician, and the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Roque Sáenz Peña | Death and legacy
Árbenz himself resigned his position as Defense Minister on February 20 and declared his candidacy for the presidency. Arévalo wrote him an enthusiastic personal letter in response but publicly only reluctantly endorsed him, preferring, it is thought, his friend Víctor Manuel Giordani, who was then Health Minister. It was only the support Árbenz had, and the impossibility of Giordani being elected, that led to Arévalo deciding to support Árbenz. Prior to his death, Arana had planned to run in the 1950 presidential elections. His death left Árbenz without any serious opposition in the elections (leading some, including the CIA and US military intelligence, to speculate that Árbenz personally had him eliminated for this reason).
Jacobo Árbenz | 1950 election
Máximo Tajes died two days before his 60th birthday in November 1912. His residence, near Cerrillos and close to the banks of the Santa Lucia river, is situated on a location called Parrador Tajes. It has become a house museum which is open to the public free of charge. A road in Carrasco, Montevideo, is named after Máximo Tajes.
Máximo Tajes | Death and legacy
He died on 24 February 1956 in Mexico.
Antonio Lara Zárate | Exile (1939–56)
Ubico went into exile to New Orleans in the US and died of lung cancer on 14 June 1946.
Jorge Ubico | Exile and death
López Jordán stayed in voluntary exile at Montevideo, Uruguay, until the end of 1888, when, thanks to an amnesty decreed by Argentine president Miguel Juárez Celman in August of that year, he returned to his country and settled at Buenos Aires, whence he sought recommissioning into the Argentine army. But on June 22, 1889, López Jordán was shot and killed in the street by the young Aurelio Casas, who had been told that López Jordán had ordered the murder of his father, Zenón Casas, a military captain (although the killing had actually been ordered by a Uruguayan military officer, Cornelio Oviedo, in May 1873).
Ricardo López Jordán | Later life
The Arbenz family then embarked into exile, taking them first to México, then to Canada, where they went to pick up daughter Arabella, and then on to Switzerland via the Netherlands. As a condition for entry, the Swiss authorities asked Arbenz to renounce his Guatemalan nationality, to prevent the ousted president from continuing his resistance in Switzerland. Arbenz refused this request, as he felt that such a gesture would mark the end of his political career. Furthermore, he could not benefit from political asylum, because Switzerland had not yet ratified the 1951 Agreement of the newly created United Nations High Commission for Refugees, designed to protect people fleeing from communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
Maria Cristina Vilanova | Humiliation and exile
From there, three months later, and after being liberated, he travelled to Chile (1811), where he worked with Generales Bernardo O'Higgins and Juan Mackenna, and became a friend of José Miguel Carrera. He had to seek refuge in Buenos Aires (1814) after the Battle of Rancagua. Was a Vice President of the Tucumán Congress (1817–1819). He lived in Montevideo, Uruguay (1820), where he was a deputy to Congress (1828–1830). He died soon after in 1832.
Jaime de Zudáñez | Biography
He died on 25 July 2018 in Montevideo at aged 46 after suffering an aneurysm.
Líber Vespa | Introduction
He walked to the nearby Mexican Embassy, seeking political asylum. Two months later he was granted safe passage out of the country, and flew to exile in Mexico.
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état | Árbenz's resignation
He died in Hospital 14 February 2013 in Lima, Peru. He was survived by his 3 children. He was widower of Margarita Navarrete, mother of his son and two daughters.
Luis Cruzado | Death
Tuero, his wife, his daughter, and one granddaughter were part of the countless victims of the Vargas tragedy. On December 16, 1999, around noon his house located in Los Corales, Vargas State, was buried under a massive landslide. His relatives in Caracas warned him to evacuate the house, but he said: "This house is 27 years old and I feel more secure in here".
Jorge Tuero | Death
Under the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez, he was imprisoned and then exiled to Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and then the United States. Protesting at the dictatorship, he encountered the anarchist organization "Generación Consciente" in Barcelona. He eventually returned to Venezuela, and died in Caracas, aged 88.
Carlos Brandt | Exile
He died in Houston, United States on August 5, 1998.
Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind | Death
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
Peurifoy promised to arrange a truce, and the plotters went to Árbenz and informed him of their decision. Árbenz, utterly exhausted and seeking to preserve at least a measure of the democratic reforms that he had brought, agreed. After informing his cabinet of his decision, he left the presidential palace at 8 pm on June 27, 1954, having taped a resignation speech that was broadcast an hour later. In it, he stated that he was resigning in order to eliminate the "pretext for the invasion," and that he wished to preserve the gains of the October Revolution. He walked to the nearby Mexican Embassy, seeking political asylum.
Jacobo Árbenz | Operation PBSuccess
Asturias spent his final years in Madrid, where he died in 1974. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Miguel Ángel Asturias | Exile and rehabilitation
He lived in Buenos Aires until his death in 1990.
Vjekoslav Vrančić | Death
He died in Buenos Aires on December 4, 1907, at the age of 85. He is buried in the Recoleta Cemetery.
Luis Sáenz Peña | Death
He visited his famous family in Spain, his grandmother Antonia García de Videgain, and his uncle Salvador Videgain are more important for him in the 1920s. He abandoned Spain, never to return again, in 1936 because of the civil war of Spain. Towards the end of his life, Videgain lived in a good economic situation. He died in September 19, 1945, in Panama city, Panama. His family live around all América.
Antonio Videgain Reparaz | Later life
In Switzerland, the Swiss authorities requested that Arbenz renounce his Guatemalan nationality, so as to prevent him from conducting resistance activities. The ousted president refused this request, as he felt that such a gesture would have marked the end of his political career. Furthermore, Arbenz could not seek political asylum, because Switzerland had not yet ratified the 1951 agreement of the newly created United Nations Refugees Convention, which was designed to protect people fleeing from communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Árbenz and his family were instead the victims of a CIA-orchestrated defamation campaign that lasted from 1954 to 1960, which only abated when the Cuban revolution triumphed in 1959, and that included a close friend of Árbenz, who turned out to be a double agent working for the CIA: Carlos Manuel Pellecer.
Arabella Árbenz | Family humiliation and exile
He died in Buenos Aires.
Carlos F. Borcosque | Introduction
He died in Havana on October 5, 2009, at the age of 88. At his will, his remains were cremated and his ashes were deposited in the Mausoleum of the Front of Las Villas, in the city of Santa Clara.
Armando Acosta Cordero | 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
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
Following these uncertainties,he was overthrown in a bloodless coup and a new, short-lived Junta government was formed consisting of three military (Miguel Ángel Castillo, César Yanes Urías, Rubén Alonso Rosales) and three civilian (Ricardo Falla Cáceres, Fabio Castillo Figueroa, Rene Fortín Magaña.) After his exile, he lived in New York City till his death. He died of hodgekins disease, leaving behind a wife and eight children.
José María Lemus | Overthrow and death
After the end of the Civil War, he went to Gandia, where he boarded a British ship that took him into exile, first to Algeria and France, then to Mexico, where he died on 14 January 1958.
José Miaja | Exile
He died due to cancer in a Guatemala City hospital on 24 February 2018. Acting President Jafeth Cabrera Franco decreed three days of national mourning, and the national flag should fly at half mast in all public plazas and government buildings.
Óscar Julio Vian Morales | Death
He died in Mexico City, the 10 September 1988, at age 84, his remains rest in the Church of the Covedonga in Mexico City.
Juan C. Gorraéz | Death