Peru, 1948 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 3 to 4 October 1948 sailors at the Callao naval base rose against President Jose Luis Bustamante y Rivero of Peru in a revolt encouraged by the left wing of the APRA party, which had planned a coup of its own as its rupture with the government deepened. The army bloodily crushed the rising, with some 250 rebels and 60 government soldiers killed, and Bustamante outlawed APRA on 4 October with hundreds of naval personnel arrested. The attempt failed to topple the president but destroyed the political balance that had kept him in office: the revolt became the turning point for the agro export oligarchy and anti-APRA military sectors, and on 27 October General Manuel Odria rose at Arequipa in the Restorative Revolution that deposed Bustamante and deported him to Argentina by 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
13510041948
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 Callao revolt unharmed, but was overthrown by Odria three weeks later.
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
Luttwak
Wikipedia
New York Times
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 →