Ecuador, 1950 — dissident coup attempt
Event Summary
On 15 July 1950 the government of President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador moved against a dissident challenge from the Concentration of Popular Forces, the Guayaquil based populist machine of Carlos Guevara Moreno, whose organ Momento had waged a corrosive campaign against the regime. The CFP leadership was violently arrested on 15 July 1950 after interior minister Andres F. Cordova found the legal formula to close the magazine and prosecute the party's leaders, ending the plot recorded in the dataset as a failed dissident coup against Plaza.
The episode was the sharpest political storm of a presidency otherwise remembered for constitutional scruple: Plaza permitted free elections for the 1952 succession and completed his term, while Guevara Moreno reemerged as CFP boss and was later deported by the incoming Velasco Ibarra government.
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
13007151950
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Galo Plaza Lasso survived the challenge unharmed and completed his term in 1952.
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
Los Angeles Times
South China Morning Post
The Times of India
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 →