Cuartelazo

Cuartelazo, a barracks revolt. Cuartelazos have been one of the means frequently used by disaffected factions within Latin American society to change the government. The term is derived from the Spanish cuartel ("quarter" or "barracks"), so it refers very specifically to the use of a key garrison to begin a generalized military move against the government. The leaders often issue a plan or Pronunciamiento outlining their goals. Mexican history in the nineteenth century is a particularly good example of the importance of the military revolt in dictating the rhythm and direction of political change. That country saw the issuing of over one hundred planes and many more attempted cuartelazos.

See alsoPronunciamiento .

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Additional Bibliography

Betancourt, Rómulo, Alberto Carnevali, Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco, and Marco Tulio Bruni Celli. El Cuartelazo del 24 de noviembre 1948. Caracas: Acción Democrática, Departamento de Estudios, Doctrina y Capacitación, 1980.

Calvert, Peter. "The 'Typical Latin-American Revolution'" International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944–) 43, no. 1 (January 1967): 85-95.

González Prada, Manuel. "Nuestras revoluciones," "La Buena revolución," pp. 131-146; 147-156, in Bajo el oprobio. Paris: Louis Bellenard et Fis, 1933.

López Gonźlez, Valentín. "El cuartelazo Morelos, 1913." Cuadernos Morelenses. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Ediciones Gobierno del Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos, 1981.

Stokes, William S. "Violence as a Power Factor in Latin-American Politics" Western Political Quarterly 5, no. 3 (Sept. 1952): 445-468.

Tamariz L., Domingo. La ronda del general testimonios inéditos del Cuartelazo de 1948. Lima, Perú: J. Campodonico Editor, 1998.

                                            Todd Little-Siebold