| El Carupanazo | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Government-Insurgents | |||||||
 Venezuelan government |
Military rebels | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
|
Rómulo Betancourt |
Jesús Teodoro Molina Villegas Pedro Vegas Castejón Héctor Fleming Mendoza | ||||||
| Military support | |||||||
| Armed Forces of Venezuela | Rebel forces | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
56 dead 400 arrests | |||||||
El Carupanazo was a short-lived military rebellion against the government of Rómulo Betancourt, in which rebel military officers commanding the Third Marine Infantry Battalion and the 77th National Guard Detachment took over the city of Carúpano in May 1962.[1] The rebellion was followed a month later by another in Puerto Cabello, El Porteñazo.
- ^ (in Spanish) venezuelatuya.com, El Carupanazo y El Porteñazo