1948 Venezuelan 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. Gallegos had been elected in the Venezuelan presidential election, 1947 (generally believed to be the country's first honest election) and taken office in February 1948. Chalbaud had been Gallegos' Minister of Defense. Democracy would not be restored until the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état overthrew the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez.

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Coups, Self-coup, and attempted coups in Latin America since 1943

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

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

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

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

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

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

2000s	Ecuador (2000) Venezuela (2002) Haiti (2004)* Honduras (2009)*

2010s	Ecuador (2010)

* coup ‡ self-coup coups against a democracy in bold