Jacobo Árbenz Vilanova

Jacobo Árbenz Vilanova is a politician in Guatemala. He is the son of former progressive Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz 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, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Uruguay, Cuba and El Salvador, but mostly in Costa Rica – before deciding to return during the administration of Alfonso Portillo.