Dominican Republic, 1962 — dissident coup
Event Summary
The civilian military junta installed by General Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria on January 16, 1962 lasted only days. Facing a renewed general strike led by the National Civic Union, crowds in the streets, and clear US support for restoring the Council of State, officers of Echavarria's own armed forces, prominently younger air force officers, arrested the general in a countercoup and freed the council members held under house arrest. The restored Council of State accepted Joaquin Balaguer's resignation and installed Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly as its president.
Sources date the countercoup across January 18 and 19, 1962; the dataset uses January 19, the date the old government returned under Bonnelly. The Bonnelly council governed for the rest of the year and delivered the December 1962 elections, the country's first free vote in decades, won by Juan Bosch. Echavarria was deported, and no one was reported physically harmed in the countercoup itself.
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
04201191962
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: General Pedro Rodriguez Echavarria and his three day old civilian military junta were deposed; Echavarria was arrested by his own officers and deported, not physically harmed. The Council of State was restored under Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly..
Baseline coding: Incumbent executive removed from power. Recorded leader fate: deposed; 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
Wikipedia
Chicago Daily Tribune
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