Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes took power after this leader was murdered by a leftist member of his presidential guard. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this leader, who sported a Hitler-mustache and often stood arms-crossed à la Mussolini. This man’s ascent to his highest position ended the “Ten Years of Spring.”
ANSWER: Carlos Castillo Armas [prompt on partial answers]
[10m] The novel Harsh Times implies that this man, who supported Castillo Armas in Operation PBFortune, may have murdered him. This man more clearly ordered the attempted assassination of Rómulo Betancourt.
ANSWER: Rafael Trujillo [or Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina; prompt on El Jefe]
[10e] Castillo Armas opposed Jacobo Arbenz’s agrarian reforms, which would have aided these indigenous peoples of Central America, whose ancestors built sites like Chichen Itza.
ANSWER: Maya [or Mayans]
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