Editing Jacobo Árbenz (section)

===Europe and Uruguay===
After being unable to obtain citizenship in Switzerland, the Árbenz family moved to Paris, where the French government gave them permission to live for a year, on the condition that they did not participate in any political activity,{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=66}} then to [[Prague]], the capital of Czechoslovakia. After only three months, he moved to Moscow, which came as a relief to him from the harsh treatment he received in Czechoslovakia.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=68}} While traveling in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, he was constantly criticized in the press in Guatemala and the US, on the grounds that he was showing his true communist colors by going there.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=68}} After a brief stay in Moscow, Árbenz returned to Prague and then to Paris. From there he separated from his wife: María traveled to El{{nbsp}}Salvador to take care of family affairs.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=68}} The separation made life increasingly difficult for Árbenz, and he slipped into depression and took to drinking excessively.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=68}} He tried several times to return to Latin America, and was finally allowed in 1957 to move to Uruguay.{{sfn|Koeppel|2008|p=153}} The CIA made several attempts to prevent Árbenz from receiving a Uruguayan visa, but these were unsuccessful, and the Uruguayan government allowed Árbenz to travel there as a political refugee.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=69}} Árbenz arrived in [[Montevideo]] on 13 May 1957, where he was met by a hostile "reception committee" organized by the CIA. However, he was still a figure of some note in leftist circles in the city, which partially explained the CIA's hostility.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|pp=70–72}}

While Árbenz was living in Montevideo, his wife came to join him. He was also visited by Arévalo a year after his own arrival there. Although the relationship between Arévalo and the Árbenz family was initially friendly, it soon deteriorated due to differences between the two men.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|p=72}} Arévalo himself was not under surveillance in Uruguay and was occasionally able to express himself through articles in the popular press. He left for Venezuela a year after his arrival to take up a position as a teacher.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|pp=70–72}} During his stay in Uruguay, Árbenz was initially required to report to the police on a daily basis; eventually, however, this requirement was relaxed somewhat to once every eight days.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|pp=70–72}} María Árbenz later stated that the couple was pleased by the hospitality they received in Uruguay, and would have stayed there indefinitely had they received permission to do so.{{sfn|Garcia Ferreira|2008|pp=70–72}}