Carlos Enrique Díaz de León (1910 – 1971) was the provisional President of Guatemala

President of Guatemala

The title of President of Guatemala has been the usual title of the leader of Guatemala since 1839, when that title was assumed by Mariano Rivera Paz...

 from 27 June 1954 to 28 June 1954. He was replaced by a military junta

Military dictatorship

A military dictatorship is a form of government where in the political power resides with the military. It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military....

 led by Elfegio Monzón. Carlos Enrique Díaz was chief of the armed forces.

Diaz was also a friend and successor of Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

n president Jacobo Árbenz

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944–1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954....

. At the direction of the CIA and US Ambassador John Peurifoy, Díaz convinced Árbenz to resign the presidency.

Military Government Board (1954)

• Colonel Carlos Enrique Diaz
• Colonel H. Elfego Monzón
• Colonel Jose Angel Sanchez

Later the CIA decided that Díaz was too indulgent of Communists

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 and he was replaced by Elfegio Monzón, an officer in the national army who had opposed Árbenz.