1950 Haitian coup d'état
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Date10 May 1950
Location
Status
Successful military coup
- President Estimé ousted
- A three-man junta takes power
- Colonel Magloire becomes president after the junta calls elections
| 1950 Haitian coup d'état | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Armed Forces of Haiti |
Military junta | ||||||
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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]
