1948 Peruvian coup d'état
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Army victory:
- Overthrow of Bustamante
- Manuel A. Odría becomes president
| 1948 Peruvian coup d'état | |||||||
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| Part of the presidency of Manuel Odría | |||||||
 Odría after the coup | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Government of Peru |
 Peruvian Army | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 José L. Bustamante |
Manuel A. Odría Zenón Noriega | ||||||
The 1948 Peruvian coup d'état took place on October 27, 1948, headed by general Manuel A. Odría in Arequipa,[1] referred to by him as the "Restorative Revolution" (Spanish: Revolución Restauradora), against the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero. Odría seized power.[2]
The military coup gave way to a period of almost twenty months in which the deposed president was prosecuted, a state of emergency was declared throughout the country, and the national congress was dissolved.[3]
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero became the president of Peru in the 1945 elections with the support of the National Democratic Front, an alliance of parties including APRA (under the name "People's Party"), the Peruvian Communist Party, and other democratic and left-leaning parties. He also had the support of unionists and the popular classes.[3]
Bustamante's government had to face difficult political and social situations, such as the predominance of APRA in Congress and the subsequent confrontation between executive and legislative, and the murder allegedly at the hands of Apristas of the director of the newspaper La Prensa, Francisco Graña Garland. The disagreements between the conservative and military sectors with the government due to the refusal to distance itself from APRA caused the crisis to escalate until the resignation of the cabinet chaired by Julio Ernesto Portugal.[3]
The turning point for the export oligarchy and the anti-APRA sectors[1] to begin the path to taking power through a coup d'état occurred on October 3, 1948, with the uprising of the sailors in Callao, encouraged by the APRA and related soldiers.[3]
