Paraguay, 1947 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 30 April 1947 rebel military elements again attempted to topple President Higinio Morinigo of Paraguay, an episode within the March to August 1947 Paraguayan Civil War in which the armed forces had split against the government. With four of eleven army divisions, most of the navy, and the bulk of the officer corps aligned with the Febrerista, Liberal, and Communist rebel coalition under Rafael Franco, the fighting in the autumn of 1947 pitted rebel held Concepcion and mutinous units against Morinigo's loyalist core of Colorado Party militias, the Campo Grande cavalry, and Asuncion garrison units armed with superior American-supplied weapons. The April attempt failed to dislodge the government.
Morinigo's forces, sustained by Argentine support, ground down the rebellion through mid-year, repelled the final rebel thrust on Asuncion in August, and by 20 August 1947 had won the war, with surviving rebel leaders fleeing to Argentina.
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
15004301947
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Higinio Morinigo survived the attempt unharmed and won the civil war by August 1947.
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
Wikipedia
New York Times
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