What the records say
- When
- 24 Nov 1948
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 10.51° N, 66.91° W
- Description
- coup d'état
1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
Coup d'état
The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947 Venezuelan general election and had taken office in February 1948. Chalbaud had been Gallegos' minister of defense. Jiménez took command of the country as its dictator.
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- Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in Venezuela”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Caracas (Venezuela), la derecha proestatdounidense perpetra un golpe de Estado que derroca al presidente democrático Rómulo Gallegos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page