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The 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état was a military coup d'état that occurred in El Salvador on 15 October 1979. The coup, led by young military officers, bloodlessly overthrew military President Carlos Humberto Romero and sent him into exile.
1979 Salvadoran coup d'état – President Carlos Humberto Romero was overthrown by the Salvadoran Army on 15 October 1979. The Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador was established and elected Álvaro Magaña as President on 2 May 1982. The coup started the 12-year long Salvadoran Civil War. [14] [15] [16] [17]
The military came to power in El Salvador when the first democratically elected president, Arturo Araujo, was overthrown in a military coup d'état on 2 December 1931. The military appointed Araujo's vice president , Brigadier General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez , as acting president on 4 December 1931.
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
The military launched a coup d'état on 15 October 1979 and forced Romero to resign and go into exile. [10] Many high-ranking military officials who were loyal to Romero, such as the Minister of National Defense and the Director of the National Guard , also resigned and went into exile.
The 1961 Salvadoran coup d'état was a successful countercoup in El Salvador led by Colonel Anibal Portillo against the short-lived Junta of Government that had taken power in 1960, replacing the reformist military junta with an ardent anti-Communist government named the Civic-Military Directory. By the end of that year, military governance had ...
15 October – The Armed Forces of El Salvador deposed President Humberto Romero in a military coup d'état and established the Revolutionary Government Junta. [1] The Salvadoran Civil War began. Deaths
The 1960 Salvadoran coup d'état also known as El Madrugón de los Compadres, [1] was the successful overthrow in El Salvador of the José Maria Lemus administration by leftist elements of the military and civilians. [2] The coup resulted in establishing a six-person military junta composed of three military officials and three civilians led by ...