GUATEMALAN ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005400190005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 30, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Guatemalan Anti-Goverment Demonstrations
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as serious as the rally of 21 July, in which many persons were killed
wounded,
1b Anti-get demonstrations on 23 July 1950 were marked by four knc n
deaths when police or palace guards fired into the crowd.. The anti-
govex nt strike is spreading with professional groups joining the
students. T;Ia r commiercial and industrial establishments haw closed, and
the situation is growing mwe serious with more and more possibilitDv of
violence .ran Communist-controlled fbroee, including labor groups.
2. The home of General i-$gael Ydagoras Fuentes, opposition candidate for the
presidency, was broken into on the night of 23 July 1950, and looted by
pro-government elements. Pro-goverment forces called for another rally
for 24 July 1950, and the general fear is that the situation will become
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
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