Paraguay, 1948 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 25 to 26 October 1948 dissident Colorado elements attempted a coup against President Juan Natalicio Gonzalez of Paraguay, barely ten weeks after he took office on 15 August 1948 as the sole candidate in the February election. Gonzalez, leader of the party's hardline Guionista faction and creator of the Guion Rojo paramilitary, faced rumors from the start of his term that he would not survive it, with the rival Democratico wing under Federico Chaves and ambitious officers maneuvering against him. Loyalist forces, with Guion Rojo militants participating in the suppression, blocked the October rebellion and Gonzalez remained in office.
His reprieve was short: on 29 to 30 January 1949 another coup by Felipe Molas Lopez, Federico Chaves, and defense minister General Raimundo Rolon forced his resignation, and Gonzalez went into exile in Buenos Aires.
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
15010251948
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Juan Natalicio Gonzalez survived the October attempt unharmed but was forced out by a second coup in January 1949.
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
CSP
Wikipedia
Wall Street Journal
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →