Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio

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Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio (17 July 1918 – 6 December 2003) was President of Guatemala from 1 July 1970 to 1 July 1974.

Arana Osorio was born in Barberena, in the department of Santa Rosa. A colonel in the Army, he was elected in an electoral process generally considered "non-transparent" on a platform promising a crackdown on law-and-order issues; his vice president was Eduardo Cáceres Lehnoff. The December following his election he declared a state of emergency and conducted a ruthless, albeit effective, anti-guerrilla campaign; however, this same campaign also entailed the harassment and persecution of his political opponents, student leaders, and trade unionists.

Arana Osorio was the first of the string of military rulers who would dominate Guatemalan politics in the 1970s and 1980s (his predecessor, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, while dominated by the army, was nominally a civilian). He also served as the ambassador to Nicaragua.