Venezuela, 1962 — military coup attempt
Event Summary
On 4 to 5 May 1962 a garrison of the Venezuelan marines and national guard at Carupano, in the eastern state of Sucre, rose in revolt against the government of President Romulo Betancourt, in the rising known as El Carupanazo. The revolt drew together disaffected junior officers and members of the outlawed leftist Communist Party and Movement of the Revolutionary Left, part of the Castroite insurgency then gathering against Betancourt's Democratic Action government. The rebels seized the naval base and the town, but loyal forces backed by air and naval units moved swiftly to isolate and crush the rising within a day or two.
In its aftermath Betancourt suspended the two leftist parties and pressed his crackdown on the insurgency. El Carupanazo was followed a month later by the larger and bloodier Puerto Cabello revolt, El Porteñazo, both of which Betancourt suppressed, allowing him to complete his term in 1964.
Researched Details
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Sources
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Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
10105041962- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-101-1962-05-04
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: President Romulo Betancourt survived the Carupano revolt and completed his full elected term in 1964.
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
Powell and Thyne
Hartford Courant
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
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