El Salvador, 1952 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a dissident coup conspiracy in El Salvador on 27 September 1952, a tentative coup attempt against the government of President Oscar Osorio with alleged Guatemalan backing. United States diplomatic records refer to a Guatemalan who was caught in the tentative coup d'etat in the late summer of 1952, part of a pattern the Salvadorans and Americans attributed to communist infiltration from the reformist Arbenz government in neighboring Guatemala. The Osorio government, which had come to power in the 1948 Majors' Coup and won election in 1950, imposed states of siege in March 1951 and September 1952 and enacted the 1952 Law in Defense of Democratic Order, under which it developed a policy of selective repression against labor leaders and students from 1952 onward.
The coded late-September 1952 date matches this crackdown and the tentative coup the embassy referenced.
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
09209271952
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Oscar Osorio suppressed the plot and completed his term in 1956.
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
CSP
New York Times
Chicago Daily Tribune
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 →