Bolivia, 1984 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 29 December 1984, in the final crisis phase of President Hernan Siles Zuazo's UDP government in Bolivia, six months after the failed 30 June 1984 coup in which about 60 dissident army and police officers, including members of the elite narcotics unit, abducted Siles from the presidential palace and held him at gunpoint for nine to ten hours. By late 1984 Bolivia was in near-total breakdown, with hyperinflation racing toward 1,000 percent and beyond, constant strikes led by the COB and labor leader Juan Lechin, congressional demands for the president's impeachment, and a Senate censure that drove the 71-year-old Siles to a hunger strike in October 1984. On 14 November 1984 the Catholic Church brokered an agreement to call early elections in 1985.
Siles, essentially the political prisoner of both left and right, governed a state that repeatedly came to a standstill amid rightist resignation demands and chronic conspiracy. The 29 December 1984 coding sits in this late-1984 climate of conspiracy against the collapsing Siles Zuazo administration, which stepped down a year early in 1985.
Researched Details
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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
14512291984
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Siles Zuazo survived the plotting but resigned a year early in 1985 amid the crisis.
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
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Globe and Mail
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