Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...July 1980, Garcia Meza wrenched power from civilian hands in what has become known as the Cocaine Coup. U.S. Bolivian Affairs Expert James Malloy wrote then that the Garcia Meza government was a "rapacious, uniformed kleptocracy," openly in league with drug dealers. As major suppliers of the coca paste that is processed into cocaine, Bolivian drug traffickers earn some $3 billion a year...
Modest economic progress, however, could be destroyed in a moment by another military coup. The government is confident that the Garcia Meza trial will not provoke one, but many officials privately doubt whether the former dictator will be brought to justice...
...editor of the Los Angeles Times. Comments Karen Elliott House, foreign editor of the Wall Street Journal: "We are not in the business of spreading propaganda but in the business of analyzing why things happen and what they mean. I don't see (the interview) as a great journalistic coup...
Three times he had scheduled general elections, then canceled them after the opposition threatened boycotts. This time martial law Ruler Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, who seized power in a 1982 coup, promised that the first voting in Bangladesh in seven years would take place in a "free, fair and peaceful atmosphere." It did not quite work out that way. At least twelve people were killed and 400 arrested last week amid blatant vote rigging, intimidation and violence, most of it committed by supporters of Ershad's Jatiya Party. At week's end the official count gave Jatiya 82 seats...
Throughout the campaign, Ershad made it clear that he would brook no nonsense from his adversaries. When one opposition leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of a former President who was slain in an attempted military coup in 1981, called for an election boycott and seemed to hint that the armed forces should distance themselves from the government, Ershad slapped her under virtual house arrest. He then declared that anyone urging a boycott would go to prison for up to seven years...