Added source that better supports the claim of the rebellion being communist in nature. The original, more general source doesn't mention "communism" or even "socialism" at all. The original source has been moved further along.
| casualties3 = +400 dead and 700 injured<ref name=VT/>
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'''El Porteñazo''' (2 June 1962 – 6 June 1962) was a short-lived communist<ref>{{cite webencyclopedia |last=Azzellini url|first=https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/politica/plomazonDario |editor-delast=Ness |editor-el-portenazo-retumba-60-anos-despues/first=Immanuel |editor-link=Immanuel titleNess |encyclopedia=PlomazónThe International Encyclopedia of ElRevolution Porteñazoand resoundsProtest. 601500 yearsto laterthe |Present. language|title=enVenezuela, |Military publisher=UltimasUprisings, Noticias1960-1962 | firsturl=Eduardohttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/338701255_Venezuela_Military_Uprisings_1960-1962 | lastformat=Chapellinpdf |date=2April June2009 2022|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |doi=10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1526 |accessdate=202023-06-06 August 2022}}</ref> military rebellion against the government of [[Rómulo Betancourt]] in [[Venezuela]], in which rebels attempted to take over the city of [[Puerto Cabello]] ({{convert|75.83|mi|km}} from the capital).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.ultimasnoticias.com.ve/noticias/politica/plomazon-de-el-portenazo-retumba-60-anos-despues/ | title=Plomazón of El Porteñazo resounds 60 years later | language=en | publisher=Ultimas Noticias | first=Eduardo | last=Chapellin | date=2 June 2022 | accessdate=20 August 2022}}</ref> The rebellion was on a substantially larger scale than that of ''[[El Carupanazo]]'' a month earlier.
On 2 June 1962, units led by navy Captains Manuel Ponte Rodríguez, Pedro Medina Silva and Víctor Hugo Morales went into rebellion.<ref name=VT>{{in lang|es}} venezuelatuya.com, [http://www.venezuelatuya.com/historia/carupanazo_portenazo.htm El Carupanazo y El Porteñazo]</ref> The 55th National Guard Detachment declined to participate. The rebellion was crushed by 3 June, leaving more than 400 dead and 700 injured, and by 6 June the rebels' stronghold of [[Solano Castle]] had fallen.<ref name=VT/>
