1950 Haitian coup d'état

1950 Haitian coup d'état
Date 10 May 1950 Location Haiti Status Successful military coup President Estimé ousted A three-man junta takes power Colonel Magloire becomes president after the junta calls elections
Belligerents
Armed Forces of Haiti	Military junta
Commanders and leaders
Henri Namphy	Paul Magloire Franck Lavaud Antoine Levelt

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. 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. 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.

Bibliography

• Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957. University of North Carolina Press.