Argentina, 1963 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 10 March 1963, in the weeks just before the second and larger armed clash of the Azules versus Colorados conflict. Under the de facto president Jose Maria Guido, the Argentine military remained split between the Azules, led by army commander General Juan Carlos Ongania, who had prevailed in the September 1962 fighting and favored limited Peronist participation and elections, and the hardline Colorados, concentrated in the navy, who wanted to bar Peronism entirely and install a military dictatorship. By early March 1963 the interior minister was moving to eliminate the Peronist-linked electoral front and threaten its candidates with disqualification, sharpening tensions.
The Colorados launched their revolt on 2 April 1963, seizing navy headquarters, before the army and air force suppressed it by 5 April in fighting that left about two dozen dead. The March coding sits in this immediate pre-revolt period of plotting and maneuvering ahead of the July 1963 elections.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
16003101963
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Guido remained in office; the Colorados' April 1963 revolt failed and the Azules consolidated control ahead of the July 1963 elections.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. 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
Chicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor
Washington Post
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