Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan people to "expel [them] from power." For the present, Pastora's strategy is to hope that his re-emergence will lead to the defection of other unhappy Sandinista supporters, and eventually divide the army so that he can come to power in what would amount to a coup...
...signed in September by William Clark, then Deputy Secretary of State, and addressed to U.S. Ambassador Monteagle Stearns in Greece, was denounced in the Greek press as a forgery. The letter claimed that the U.S. supported conservatives in the Greek elections of October 1981 and suggested that a military coup would be appropriate if Greek Socialist Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister, as indeed...
...gospel throughout the Arabian peninsula, where sizable Shi'ite populations have long resented the clannish Sunni monarchies that rule them. The tiny island state of Bahrain, where 55% of the population are Shi'ites (some of Iranian origin), nearly fell victim last December to a Khomeini-inspired coup attempt...
Nonetheless Mexico's Defense Minister, General Felix Galvan Lopez, in May took the extraordinary step of publicly denying that a military coup was contemplated. Said Galvan...
...economy. Mindful of Lopez Portillo's earlier promise of abundance, Mexicans, as one well-connected local lawyer put it, "feel deep bitterness at the deception." That, in turn, raises the specter of instability in Mexico, a matter of major concern to the U.S. Talk of a military coup is circulating on the dinner-party circuit in Mexico City. There is little likelihood of such a thing: the Mexican military has stayed removed from civilian affairs for half a century. The army is far more disturbed about the insurrectional possibilities along Mexico's southern border with strife-torn Guatemala...