Bolivia, 1947 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a dissident coup conspiracy in Bolivia on 29 May 1947, during the government of President Enrique Hertzog, who had been inaugurated on 10 March 1947 as the first elected president of the conservative sexenio, the six-year restoration of the traditional oligarchic order that followed the violent overthrow and lynching of the reformist President Gualberto Villarroel in July 1946. Hertzog's Republican Socialist Unity Party government faced chronic instability, restive tin miners, and plotting from the ousted Revolutionary Nationalist Movement and the left, which sought to reverse the conservative restoration. No discrete documentation of a distinct coup plot on this specific date appears in accessible English sources, but the sexenio was a period of recurrent conspiracies.
The left's attempts to reassert control failed militarily in the 1949 civil war and legally in 1951 but finally succeeded in the National Revolution of 1952, which brought the MNR to power.
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
14505291947
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Enrique Hertzog survived and governed during the conservative sexenio; the MNR returned to power only in 1952.
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
New York Times
New York Herald Tribune
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →