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 | | On July 1, 1944, Ubico yielded to this pressure and surrendered power to a junta led by General Federico Ponce Vaides. |
 | | On October 19, 1944, a group of junior army officers, led by Captain Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and Major Francisco Javier Arana, led a coup d'etat, ousting Ponce and sending Ubico into exile. |
 | | With both Ubico and Ponce out of the picture, Arbenz and Arana joined with a civilian businessman, Jorge Toriello Garrido, to form a revolutionary junta, then scheduled presidential elections for December 1944. |
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