Costa Rica, 1946 — dissident coup attempt
Event Summary
The dataset records a failed dissident coup against President Teodoro Picado of Costa Rica on 25 June 1946. Picado had won the 1944 election as the candidate of the ruling National Republican machine and was widely viewed as a proxy for former president Rafael Angel Calderon Guardia, governing in alliance with Manuel Mora's communist Popular Vanguard Party. His government repeatedly used military force against street unrest while the opposition around Jose Figueres Ferrer concluded that peaceful change was impossible.
Figueres carried out a campaign of armed attacks inside Costa Rica during 1945 and 1946 that was intended to climax in a general strike against the government. The 1946 plotting failed and Picado remained in office. The confrontation was only postponed: after the annulled 1948 election Figueres launched the civil war that forced Picado from power and into exile in Nicaragua.
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
09406251946
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Teodoro Picado survived the 1946 plotting unharmed and remained in office until the 1948 civil war forced him out.
Baseline coding: Coup attempt failed to remove the incumbent. 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
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 →