Rebellion of the Pilots

Rebellion of the Pilots
Date19 November 1961
Location
Dominican Republic
Result

Decisive rebel victory

Trujillo family forced to flee the country
Belligerents
Elements of the Armed Forces still loyal to Trujillo Dominican Air Force
Commanders and leaders
Ramfis Trujillo Manuel Durán Guzmán
Raymundo Polanco Alegría
Nelton González Pomares
Pedro Rafael Rodríguez Echavarría

The Rebellion of the Pilots was a military uprising carried out by six members of the Dominican Military Aviation (today the Dominican Air Force) on November 19, 1961, that put a definitive end to the rule of 31 years of the Trujillo dictatorship by forcing the exile of the Trujillo family from the country. It prevented Ramfis Trujillo, José Arismendy Trujillo and Héctor Bienvenido Trujillo Molina from returning to power and restoring the regime led by their brother Rafael Trujillo.

The timely rebellion marked the end of one of the bloodiest dictatorships of the twentieth century and the beginning of the transition to democracy in the Dominican Republic, preventing the elimination of the political class that opposed the Trujillo regime.

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