Paraguay, 1948 — rebel coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a rebel coup conspiracy in Paraguay on 11 April 1948, during the volatile final months of the dictatorship of General Higinio Morinigo, in the aftermath of the 1947 Paraguayan Civil War. Morinigo had crushed a broad rebellion of Liberals, Febreristas, and communists by August 1947 with the help of the Colorado Party's Guion Rojo militia, after which the Colorados became the only legal party. The party then split between the hardline guionistas under Juan Natalicio Gonzalez and the moderates, and Gonzalez was elected president unopposed on 15 February 1948.
Suspecting that Morinigo intended to cling to power as commander-in-chief, Colorado loyalists organized a series of armed uprisings in the spring and summer of 1948. No discrete documentation of a distinct plot precisely on this date appears in accessible English sources, but the period was one of continuous conspiracy. On 3 June 1948 Colorado loyalists under Felipe Molas Lopez revolted and sent Morinigo into exile, allowing Gonzalez to take office in August.
Researched Details
Researched
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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
15004111948
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: General Higinio Morinigo clung to power in early 1948 but was overthrown by Colorado loyalists on 3 June 1948.
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
Wikipedia
New York Times
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