Haiti, 1957 — military coup
Event Summary
On June 14, 1957, the Haitian Army forced the resignation of provisional president Daniel Fignole after a tenure of just 19 days and installed a three-man Military Council of Government under General Antonio Kebreau. Fignole, a hugely popular labor leader in Port-au-Prince known for his ability to summon mass demonstrations, had been designated president in late May but quickly alienated the army by moving to reshape the officer corps. That night, soldiers broke into a cabinet session, seized Fignole at gunpoint, forced him to sign a resignation letter, and bundled him aboard a ship into exile in New York.
His removal was followed by the army's massacre of many of his supporters in the poor districts of the capital over the following nights. The Kebreau junta then governed until the September 1957 election, which the army steered to a victory for Francois Duvalier, beginning the Duvalier dictatorship.
Researched Details
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Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
04106141957- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-41-1957-06-14-3
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Daniel Fignole, provisional President of Haiti (ousted by the army at gunpoint, exiled).
Baseline coding: Incumbent executive removed from power. Recorded leader fate: deposed; exiled. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Wikipedia
New York Times
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