What the records say
- When
- 31 Mar 1933
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 34.91° S, 56.19° W
Gabriel Terra
President of Uruguay (1873–1942)
José Luis Gabriel Terra Leivas was a Uruguayan lawyer and statesman who served as the 26th constitutional president of Uruguay from 1931 to 1933 and as dictator until 1938. He led a traditionalist and corporatist regime known as the March dictatorship, because the self-coup that he led took place on 31 March 1933.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article