1975 Honduran coup d'état

The 1975 Honduran coup d'état took place on 22 April 1975, with Oswaldo López Arellano being ousted in a military coup led by his fellow General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro. The coup was prompted in part by the "Bananagate" scandal, exposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975, in which the United Brands Company agreed to bribe President López with US$1.25 million, and the promise of another $1.25 million upon the reduction of certain banana export taxes.

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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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