Bolivia, 1965 — coup (actor type unspecified) conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 3 January 1965, in the early consolidation phase of the military junta led by General Rene Barrientos and army commander General Alfredo Ovando Candia, who had seized power from President Victor Paz Estenssoro on 4 November 1964. In the opening months of 1965 the junta governed a fractured political landscape, relying partly on former MNR personnel while balancing between contending forces and facing hostility from the militant, well-armed tin miners aligned with the exiled-in-waiting leftist leader Juan Lechin. Barrientos would later frame Lechin as the mastermind of a Communist conspiracy to overthrow the government, and in May 1965 he deported Lechin, sent troops into the state mines, and imposed a state of siege, provoking armed clashes.
The January 1965 coding sits in this tense early-junta period of plotting and countermeasures, before the open Barrientos-Ovando rivalry and the May 1965 mining confrontation.
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
14501031965
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: The Barrientos-Ovando junta held power; leftist opposition was suppressed and Lechin was later deported in May 1965.
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 Globe and Mail
Los Angeles Times
Newsday
Washington Post, Herald Times
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 →