Jorge Toriello Garrido (23 April 1908 – 16 June 1998) was one of the three leaders of the first government that ruled
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 as part of the
October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Historiography in the Soviet Union, Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was the second of Russian Revolution, two r ...
. Toriello Garrido, a civilian, led the government along with
Captain Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán and
Major Francisco Javier Arana after overthrowing the military regime of
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides (27 March 1889 – 29 January 1956) was the acting President of Guatemala from 4 July 1944 to 20 October 1944. He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution.
Life
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, who had temporarily taken over from ousted dictator
Jorge Ubico
Jorge Ubico Castañeda (10 November 1878 – 14 June 1946), nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as the president of Guatemala from 1931 to 1944.
A ge ...
. He was the
Minister of Finance
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A ministry of finance's portfolio ...
in 1945.
[http://lcweb5.loc.gov/glin/jurisdictions/Guatemala/pdfs/69640-31689.pdf ]
References
1908 births
1998 deaths
20th-century presidents of Guatemala
Finance ministers of Guatemala
People from Guatemala City
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