1953 Colombian coup d'état

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1953 Colombian coup d'état
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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