Independent Anti-Communist Party of the West

Independent Anti-Communist Party of the West (Partido Independiente Anticomunista Occidental), PIACO. Guatemalan right-wing party, founded in 1953. The leading anti-Communist party in the Western part of Guatemala. Leader: Inez Nuño. PIACO fought against the government of Arbenz. After the coup in 1954 supported the government Carlos Castillo Armas. Then collaborated with Ydígoras Fuentes.

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