Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949)

Francisco Javier Arana

Guatemalan military leader (1905–1949)

Francisco Javier Arana Castro was a Guatemalan military leader and one of the three members of the revolutionary junta that ruled Guatemala from 20 October 1944 to 15 March 1945 during the early part of the Guatemalan Revolution. A major in the Guatemalan army under the dictator…