What the records say
- When
- 27 Jan 1917
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 9.93° N, 84.08° W
1917 Costa Rican coup d'état
The 1917 Costa Rican coup d'état of 27 January 1917 was a rupture of the constitutional order in the Republic of Costa Rica, where the constitutional President Alfredo González Flores, was overthrown by his Minister of War and Navy Federico "Pelico" Tinoco and his brother and army commander José Joaquín Tinoco.
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