Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This latest success came just as the centrist Aquino presidency was recovering from a series of political setbacks. The shooting of 18 demonstrators on January 22 by security forces drew extreme criticism from the left; five days later right-wing elements of the armed forces staged an abortive coup. Then, on January 30, rebel negotiators announced that they would no longer seek an extension of the two month cease-fire between Communist and government troops...
...everyone had forgotten about the coup d'etat Jaruzelski had engineered and about his violent crack-down against Solidarnosc. At the time, Western nations reacted to such outrageous act firmly, isolating Poland politically and levying economic sanctions...
...issued by Bayan, the largest leftist coalition: "Bayan points the finger of guilt at the Aquino government. By this act it has been shorn of all past claims of being democratic and antifascist." Juan Ponce Enrile, the ambitious former Defense Minister who was sacked by Aquino after the November coup attempt, also pounced on the President. "It is about time," he declared, "that we remove the masks worn by those of our national leadership and expose the true nature of their capacity to run the affairs of our republic...
...fighting. A study conducted by army intelligence and released last week concluded that a "cessation of hostilities" was a "practical impossibility" because the revolutionary principles of the rebels are nonnegotiable. Enrile uses that very argument to rally his supporters against Aquino; the officers suspected of involvement in November's coup plot share his view...
...late last week, should give her government some respite. In the end, however, she may not be able to avoid an out-and-out confrontation with antidemocratic forces of left and right, meaning that she may have to send the military back into battle with the guerrillas and put coup plotters behind bars. "Whatever Aquino does," said a ranking government official, "the honeymoon is definitely over." Now it is up to Aquino to make her presidency work...