Word: coupes
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Jumblatt is widely regarded as the "Mr. Clean" of Lebanon's tainted politics and a longtime influential kingmaker. The founder of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party, he backed Camille Chamoun for the presidency in a bloodless coup in 1952. Jumblatt soon turned on his protege for failing to enact economic and social reforms; in 1958 he was among the leaders of an anti-Chamoun uprising that disintegrated after U.S. Marines landed on Lebanon's beaches to restore order. Jumblatt has generally taken a strong socialist and pro-Palestinian line. Although he is nobody's man by any means, Jumblatt...
...unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
...there was no significant resistance, and the generals did not even bother to order a curfew. The coup was no great surprise, after all. Argentines had been speculating for months about when-not if-the soldiers would take power. Conditions were deteriorating so rapidly that only the military could restore order (TIME, March 29). The generals were not exaggerating last week when they claimed that Argentina was faced with "a tremendous power vacuum threatening to sink it in disintegration and anarchy." Political killings, by right-and left-wing murder squads, had recently reached the staggering rate of three...
Chance Encounter. In her months in office, Isabel proved to have little more political acumen than a cabaret dancer-which is what she was in 1956, when she had a chance encounter in Panama with Juan Perón, then freshly ousted by a coup after nine turbulent years as Argentina's President. She became his companion in luxurious exile in Madrid, married him in 1961 (she was 30, he was 66) and returned to Argentina with him in 1973. In that year she agreed to run for the vice presidency when he urged her to join...
Right up to her last day in office, she was out of touch with reality. On that day, while soldiers in combat gear were taking up their coup positions, she went on with business as usual, receiving new ambassadors from Switzerland and Rwanda. Only when her helicopter, which she had boarded to go to her suburban villa, was diverted to the Buenos Aires municipal airport did she seem to realize what was happening. There, an officer told her bluntly: "Señora, you are under detention. The government you have led is a calamity. The armed forces are taking over...