Argentina, 1951 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 28 September 1951 the retired General Benjamin Andres Menendez led a poorly planned military uprising against President Juan Domingo Peron of Argentina, drawing on the army's cavalry arm and minor factions of the navy and air force. The rising came weeks before the November 1951 election and amid military unease at Peronist hegemony, the 1949 constitutional reform allowing reelection, and Eva Peron's short-lived vice presidential ambitions. The units the rebels counted on chose instead to back the government, and the uprising, nicknamed the chirinada, collapsed within about half a day and nearly bloodlessly.
That evening the gravely ill Eva Peron condemned the coup by radio. Roughly 200 officers had their careers ended by prison sentences or dismissal, purging the forces of anti-Peronist elements; several participants, and General Eduardo Lonardi who had declined to join, went on to lead the successful 1955 coup.
Researched Details
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Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
16009281951- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-160-1951-09-28
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Juan Domingo Peron survived the uprising unharmed and was reelected in November 1951.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Luttwak
Wikipedia
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