Peru, 1948 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 5 July 1948 Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Llosa launched a right-wing military rebellion against President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero of Peru, which government troops suppressed by 7 July as the government declared a nationwide state of siege. Bustamante, elected in 1945 in Peru's first extended experiment in political democracy with APRA support, was by mid-1948 caught between an APRA he had broken with and an increasingly conspiratorial right allied to the agro export oligarchy and anti-APRA officers such as his former interior minister General Manuel Odria. The Llosa rising failed and Bustamante remained in office, but the pressures it expressed kept building: an APRA linked naval revolt at Callao was bloodily crushed on 3 October 1948, and on 27 October Odria rose in Arequipa and completed the coup that deported Bustamante to Argentina on 29 October 1948.
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
13507051948
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero survived the Llosa rebellion unharmed and remained in office until Odria's coup deposed him in late October 1948.
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
The Sun
The New York Times
Chicago Daily Tribune
South China Morning Post
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 →