Word: coupes
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...Last week, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the beneficiary of January's people's coup, herself almost fell victim to the fickle mob. For days, crowds jammed EDSA, swelling to 400,000, many of them angry, poor people enraged at Arroyo's brass-knuckled arrest the previous week of Estrada, their former champion. At dawn on Tuesday, a 40,000-strong mob laid siege to Arroyo's rambling presidential palace, forcing her to scurry from room to room for safety, sometimes donning a bulletproof vest. Was she frightened? "Maybe for a split second," she said...
...Estrada's wife is running. "If they want us to present evidence today," he says, "we can do so." That might not be a bad idea. The pro-Erap crowd, which includes Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a hero of the original People Power movement who was also accused of coup-plotting against former President Corazon Aquino, is calling for People Power III to bring Estrada back to power. Enrile's crowds are far smaller than the 700,000 people who poured out in January to get rid of Estrada. Nonetheless, it's a dramatic gesture of sympathy for the first...
Aristide has always been the Third World leader the U.S. thinks it ought to like but can't. He was the priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago. Yet he is also seen as a mystic demagogue whose Fanmi Lavalas Party allegedly committed electoral fraud in last May's Senate races. Bush, as a result, sent no one to Aristide's inauguration...
...ambitious and duplicitous to trust," says ally turned foe Gerard Pierre-Charles of the Democratic Convergence coalition, which has set up a rival government backed by the forces that sponsored the 1991 coup. Aristide aides accuse it of bankrolling street bombings. Convergence president Gerard Gourgue, 75, went underground for several days after Lavalas mobs attacked his offices last month...
...championed privatizing the postal system, where Japanese have squirreled away more than $2 trillion in savings. But he's no outside agitator either. He fills a parliamentary seat that was occupied by his grandfather and father, and last fall he held back from supporting a longtime ally's abortive coup against Mori. There was also a fair bit of back-room politicking on Koizumi's behalf. At a dinner in a plush Ginza restaurant in mid-April, half a dozen conservative stalwarts, including former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, selected Koizumi as their man. "Our backgrounds...