Nicaragua, 1957 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a military coup conspiracy in Nicaragua on 5 November 1957, during the first year of the presidency of Luis Somoza Debayle, who had assumed the acting presidency after his father, the dictator Anastasio Somoza Garcia, was assassinated in September 1956, and had won the fraudulent February 1957 election. United States diplomatic assessments of the dynastic succession noted several possibilities of trouble: covert opposition from ambitious figures, the radical opposition under Colonel Gomez Flores who had long attempted to mount a revolutionary attack, resentment of Luis's brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle within the National Guard officer corps, and rumors of a military junta prepared to take over the government. The coded November 1957 conspiracy fits this pattern of opposition and military plotting against the newly consolidating Somoza succession, which the family survived to rule until 1979.
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
09311051957
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Luis Somoza consolidated the dynastic succession and the Somoza family ruled Nicaragua until 1979.
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
New York Times
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