Venezuela, 1960 — military coup conspiracy
Event Summary
The dataset records an event coded as a military, dissident conspiracy in Venezuela on 18 January 1960, during the recurring rightist military plotting against President Romulo Betancourt, elected in December 1958 and inaugurated in February 1959. United States diplomatic records note that from its inception the Betancourt government was subjected to a continuing series of attempted coups by disgruntled reactionary civilian and dissident rightist military elements, and that Betancourt had to contend with rightist military plotting throughout much of his term. No discrete named plot precisely on 18 January 1960 appears in accessible sources; the well-documented named episode came a few months later, when General Jesus Maria Castro Leon led an uprising in San Cristobal in April 1960.
The coded January 1960 conspiracy fits this pattern of early rightist military plotting against the Betancourt democracy.
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
10101181960
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Betancourt thwarted the rightist plotting with armed-forces support and completed his term.
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
Chicago Daily Tribune
New York Times
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