Honduras, 1957 — palace coup
Event Summary
In mid-1957, the ruling military junta that had governed Honduras since removing Julio Lozano Diaz in October 1956 was reorganized, an internal shakeup that changed its membership as the country moved toward elections. The original three-man junta of General Roque Rodriguez, Hector Caraccioli, and Roberto Galvez Barnes had promised to restore constitutional order, but tensions within the triumvirate led to a restructuring in which Rodriguez and Galvez Barnes left and Colonel Oswaldo Lopez Arellano entered. The reshaped junta continued to prepare for the Constituent Assembly elections held on September 22, 1957, which produced a Liberal Party majority.
That assembly appointed Ramon Villeda Morales as president for a six-year term and drafted a new constitution that, at the military's insistence, gave the armed forces unusual autonomy. Lopez Arellano, who entered the junta in this reorganization, would later seize the presidency outright in the 1963 coup.
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
09107071957
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Members of the Honduran military junta (Rodriguez and Galvez Barnes removed in an internal reorganization; not physically harmed).
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
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
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