1950 Haitian coup d'état

1950 Haitian coup d'état
Date	10 May 1950
Location	Haiti
Status	Successful military coup President Estimé ousted; A three-man junta takes power; Colonel Magloire becomes president after the junta calls elections;
Belligerents
Armed Forces of Haiti	Military junta
Commanders and leaders
Henri Namphy	Paul Magloire; Franck Lavaud; Antoine Levelt

The 1950 Haitian coup d'état was a military overthrow of the president of Haiti Dumarsais Estimé by a three-man junta, the same participants in the 1946 coup d'état.^[1] The coup took place on May 10, 1950, as an army intervention whose motives were President Estimé's attempt to extend his term of office and the subsequent political unrest.^[2] One of the participants in Estimé's overthrow, Colonel Paul Magloire, became president in the post-coup elections, the first direct elections by popular suffrage in Haiti.^[3]

Bibliography

Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957. University of North Carolina Press.

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