A military dictatorship ruled Venezuela for ten years, from 1948 to 1958. After the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état brought an end to a three-year experiment in democracy, a triumvirate of military person
![Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Luis Llovera Páez [es], members of the junta in 1951](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/MPJ%2C_GSF%2C_LFLLP_-_Junta_de_Gobierno_1950-1952.jpg/500px-MPJ%2C_GSF%2C_LFLLP_-_Junta_de_Gobierno_1950-1952.jpg)
Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Germán Suárez Flamerich, and Luis Llovera Páez [es], members of the junta in 1951
![La Vaca Sagrada [es], in which Marcos Pérez Jiménez fled to the Dominican Republic.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Museo_Aeron%C3%A1utico_2.jpg/500px-Museo_Aeron%C3%A1utico_2.jpg)
La Vaca Sagrada [es], in which Marcos Pérez Jiménez fled to the Dominican Republic.
1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
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The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who ha
Military dictatorship in Venezuela
…A military dictatorship ruled Venezuela for ten years, from 1948 to 1958. After the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état brought an end to a three-year experiment in democracy ("El Trienio Adeco"), a triumvirate of military personnel controlled the government until 1952…
Soldiers on the roof of the Venezuelan Congress during the coup.