Bolivia, 1950 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
On 26 March 1950 the government of Bolivian President Mamerto Urriolagoitia suppressed a communist rebellion, one of several leftist and MNR actions the conservative sexenio government crushed that year. The newly founded Communist Party of Bolivia, formed in January 1950 from the youth wing of the Revolutionary Left Party, was part of the broad opposition to the oligarchic order, alongside the Trotskyist POR and the nationalist MNR. Following the March rebellion, the government banned the Communist Party on 11 April 1950 and outlawed communist activities, then declared a state of emergency in May and violently suppressed a general strike in La Paz on 18 and 19 May 1950 in which dozens were killed.
The dataset codes this event as a foreign-backed dissident conspiracy, reflecting government claims of external communist direction that the United States viewed skeptically. The Urriolagoitia government survived these challenges but fell to the Mamertazo self-coup after the annulled 1951 election.
Researched Details
Researched
Independent research, added record by record. Hover any label for what it means.
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
14503261950
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Mamerto Urriolagoitia suppressed the communist rebellion and banned the party weeks later.
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
The Austin Statesman
Chicago Daily Tribune
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 →