Honduran Coup d'État

Date: October 3, 1963 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1963–1983.

Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.

Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano was a Honduran politician who twice served as the President of Honduras, first from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1972 until 1975.