1953 Colombian coup d'état

The 1953 Colombian coup d'état was the coup followed by seizing of power, by Colombia's commander in chief Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on June 13, 1953. He ruled as dictator until 1957.

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(Colombia Coup 1953)

Coups, self-coups, and attempted coups in Latin America since 1943

1940s	Argentina (1943) Brazil (1945) Venezuela (1945) Venezuela (1948)

1950s	Argentina (1951)^c Cuba (1952) Bolivia (1952) Colombia (1953) Paraguay (1954) Guatemala (1954) Argentina (1955) Honduras (1956) Colombia (1957) Venezuela (1958) Cuba (1959) Brazil (1959)^c

1960s	Ecuador (1961) Argentina (1962) Guatemala (1963) Ecuador (1963) Honduras (1963) Bolivia (1964) Brazil (1964) Argentina (1966) Panama (1968) Peru (1968) Chile (1969)^c Brazil (1969)

1970s	Bolivia (1970) Honduras (1972) Uruguay (1973)^‡ Chile (June 1973)^c Chile (Sep 1973) Peru (1975) Honduras (1975) Ecuador (1975)^c Argentina (1976) Ecuador (1976) Honduras (1978) El Salvador (1979)

1980s	Bolivia (1980) Haiti (Jun 1988) Haiti (Sep 1988) Panama (1989)^c Paraguay (1989)

1990s	Haiti (1991)^c Venezuela (1992) Peru (1992)^‡ Guatemala (1993)^‡

2000s	Ecuador (2000)^c Venezuela (2002)^c Haiti (2004) Honduras (2009)

2010s	Ecuador (2010)

^c coup ^‡ self-coup

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