Dates of successful Latin American coups
Argentina: 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1976
Bolivia: 1899, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1943, 1946, 1951, 1952, 1964, 1971, 1980
Brazil: 1964
Chile: 1925, 1973
Colombia: 1953
Costa Rica: 1870, 1876, 1917
Cuba: 1952, 1959
Dominican Republic: 1963
Ecuador: 1925, 1935, 1963, 1972, 2000
El Salvador: 1948, 1960, 1979
Granada: 1979, 1983
Guatemala: 1963, 1982
Haiti: 1946, 1950, 1986, 1988, 1991
Honduras: 1956, 1963, 1972, 1975, 1978
Mexico: 1867, 1876, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1920
Nicaragua: 1856,1944
Panama: 1968
Paraguay: 1989
Peru: 1914, 1919, 1930, 1948, 1962, 1968, 1992
Suriname, 1980 (twice), 1990
Uruguay: 1933, 1973
Venezuela: 1948
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