Carlos Castillo Armas vs Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Castillo Armas immediately reversed Decree 900, returning land to the United Fruit Company and large landowners. He also disenfranchised illiterate peasants and banned labor unions and leftist political parties, consolidating power among the elite.

Following the CIA-backed coup against Jacobo Arbenz, Castillo Armas was installed as president of Guatemala. He reversed Arbenz's land reforms, returned expropriated land to the United Fruit Company, and established a repressive, anti-communist regime.

Castillo Armas was shot and killed in the presidential palace by a palace guard, Romeo V

Ojukwu served as the military leader and head of state of Biafra throughout the 30-month Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). He commanded Biafran forces against the Nigerian federal army, directing the defense of the secessionist state through a prolonged and devastating conflict.

On May 30, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the secession of the Eastern Region of Nigeria as the independent Republic of Biafra. This act followed months of ethnic violence against Igbo people in the north and failed negotiations with the federal government.

On January 12, 1970, Ojukwu fled Biafra for Ivory Coast as Nigerian forces closed in. His chief of staff, Philip Effiong, surrendered Biafra three days later. Ojukwu remained in exile in Ivory Coast for 13 years, granted asylum by President F