Philippines, 1990 — dissident coup attempt
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as an attempted dissident coup in the Philippines on 4 March 1990 against President Corazon Aquino, part of the aftermath and continuation of the failed December 1989 coup. In this incident the suspended Cagayan provincial governor Rodolfo Aguinaldo, a former military officer implicated in the December 1989 rebellion, along with around two hundred of his armed men, seized the Hotel Delfino in the provincial capital of Tuguegarao in northern Luzon and took hostages, in an act of defiance against the government's moves to arrest him for his role in the coup. Government forces moved to end the standoff, and in the ensuing gunfight Brigadier General Oscar Florendo, sent to negotiate, and twelve others were killed, while Aguinaldo was slightly wounded before fleeing into the mountains to continue as a fugitive rebel.
The episode was one of the trailing convulsions of the long series of military revolts that had plagued Aquino's presidency since 1986. She survived this as she had the others, and served out her term, handing power in 1992 to her defense chief General Fidel Ramos, whose loyalty had repeatedly saved her.
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
84003041990
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Corazon Aquino's government confronted the March 1990 Aguinaldo hostage standoff, which ended with him fleeing.
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
Wall Street Journal
Chicago Tribune
Toronto Star
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