1953 Colombian coup d'état

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Part of La Violencia

Date	June 13, 1953
Location	Colombia
Status	Laureano Gómez ousted from office

Belligerents

Colombian government (Gómez faction

Colombian government (Pinilla faction)

Commanders and leaders

Laureano Gómez

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

The 1953 Colombian coup d'état was the coup followed by seizing of power, by Colombia's commander in chief Gustavo Rojas Pinilla on June 13, 1953. Colombia was ruled by Rojas Pinilla's military dictatorship until the Colombian coup of May 10, 1957, when he was forced to step down and hand over power to a military junta.^[1]

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(Colombia Coup 1953) Archived 2006-11-03 at the Wayback Machine

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^ "Biography of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla" (in Spanish). wsp.presidencia.gov.co. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2024.