Editing Jacobo Árbenz (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Padres de Jacobo Arbenz.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.75|Árbenz's parents, Hans Jakob Arbenz and Octavia Guzmán Caballeros]]
Árbenz was born in [[Quetzaltenango]], the second-largest city in Guatemala, in 1913. He was the son of a [[German-speaking Switzerland|Swiss German]] pharmacist, Hans Jakob Arbenz Gröbli,{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=60}}<ref name="Cambranes">{{Cite book|url=http://copredeh.gob.gt/wp-content/uploads/biografia-jacobo-arbenz-1-1.pdf|title=Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán: Por la Patria y la Revolución en Guatemala, 1951–1954|last=Castellanos Cambranes|first=Julio|via=Copredeh|page=90|trans-title=Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán: For the Motherland and the Revolution in Guatemala, 1951–1954|isbn=978-9929-8119-3-5|access-date=9 April 2019|archive-date=28 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928082757/https://copredeh.gob.gt/wp-content/uploads/biografia-jacobo-arbenz-1-1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> who immigrated to Guatemala in 1901. His mother, Octavia Guzmán Caballeros, was a [[Ladino people|Ladino]] woman from a middle-class family who worked as a primary school teacher.<ref name="Cambranes" /> His family was relatively wealthy and upper-class; his childhood has been described as "comfortable".{{sfn|Gleijeses|1992|pp=134–137}} At some point during his childhood, his father became addicted to [[morphine]] and began to neglect the family business. He eventually went bankrupt, forcing the family to move to a rural estate that a wealthy friend had set aside for them "out of charity". Jacobo had originally desired to be an economist or an engineer, but since the family was now impoverished, he could not afford to go to a university. He initially did not want to join the military, but there was a scholarship available through the [[:es:Escuela Politécnica (Guatemala)|Polytechnic School of Guatemala]] for military cadets. He applied, passed all of the entrance exams, and became a cadet in 1932. His father committed suicide two years after Árbenz entered the academy.{{sfn|Gleijeses|1992|pp=134–137}}