Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alfredo Stroessner, the dean of western despots after 34 years of iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...
...before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled to a "general amnesty" for the acts of repression that had left more than 3,000 dead since the 1991 coup. It treated men denounced as thugs as "honorable" officials worthy of "mutual respect." The blithe spirit that obliterated previous animosities even accorded a measure of legitimacy to de facto president Emile Jonassaint, 81, caricatured as the spineless puppet of the junta. No less than the President of the United States...
...amnesty issue has already become a major problem. If it is not voted by Parliament before Oct. 15, the junta leaders could later be arrested and tried by Aristide's government. While Aristide can grant the army and police amnesty for political crimes -- mainly the coup -- his supporters are, for the most part, opposed to any parliamentary attempt to forgive what they call "blood crimes" like murder and rape. American officials say this is a domestic Haitian issue and the shape any amnesty finally takes -- or fails to take -- does not matter. Cedras, Biamby and Francois are obliged to resign...
...Haitians, such abuses under the nose of the Americans who had come to rescue them were a shocking dose of the treatment they have endured ever since the 1991 coup forced Aristide from power. As the U.S. soldiers watched and did nothing, Haitian onlookers became increasingly perplexed and hostile. "I know you guys are working hard," shouted one man to troops sitting on a wall. "But people here are suffering." The inaction only heightened the suspicion of collusion. "How could the United States be so stupid?" another demanded. "For months you call these men thugs, murderers, thieves and drug dealers...
...second day of violence between Haiti's factions marked the third anniversary of the military coup that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. U.S. troops' pervasive presence in Port-au-Prince failed to deter forces loyal to the military junta from disrupting a pro-democracy march of 5,000 people, in which skirmishes between the two opposing sides killed three people and injured at least 11. Amid gunfire, Aristide supporters struggled with pro-military "attaches," who were armed with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported...