Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ASUNCION, Paraguay--Former Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner yesterday boarded a jetliner at the airport that bears his name and flew to exile in Brazil, his 34-year-old grip on this nation ended by a military coup that left hundreds dead...
...official note released by the foreign ministry on Sunday, Brazil announced that it had granted political asylum to Latin America's longest-ruling dictator, who was deposed in a bloody coup Friday...
Stroessner came to power as a general in a coup in 1954 and remained commander-in-chief of Paraguay's armed forces until Friday, when Rodriguez led the coup against him. Rodriguez was sworn in as president later that...
Rodriguez was sworn in as president yesterday in a coup that reportedly left scores dead. He was cheered by several thousand citizens as he took the oath of office and swore in a Cabinet...
...coup comes as Stroessner is in ill health following surgery for a prostate operation five months...