Word: coups
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...street, where language like "U.S. imperialism" suddenly has currency again. One is the past: Latin Americans have too many vivid and bitter memories of U.S. intervention in their countries-operations that sometimes included brazen assassinations -which is why the Bush Administration got burned by accusations it backed a failed coup against Chavez in 2002 (the White House denies the charge). Another is democratic legitimacy: Chavez, for all his authoritarian tendencies, is a democratically elected head of state who last year won a national recall referendum approved by international observers...
...result, any cold war-style talk about "taking Chavez out" with "covert operatives," as Robertson suggested, just confers more Che Guevara cachet on the former army lieutenant colonel (who himself led a failed coup in 1992). And since Chavez has threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. at the first sign of gringo aggression, it makes America's important Venezuelan oil supply look all the more volatile...
...Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says "the military and these other institutions are greatly respected." Hence the Democrats' netting a former CIA officer in Illinois and a former FBI agent in Minnesota, whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, who testified about mistakes the bureau made before Sept. 11. But the Dems' biggest coup may involve a different kind of uniform: former Redskins quarterback Heath Shuler has agreed to run in his native North Carolina. --By Perry Bacon...
...What about a military coup? That's always been my fear. I have to monitor that part of it. Right now, I have to take the word of the commanders. I think it will not be that way. We haven't reached that kind of crisis yet. It's basically an economic crisis...
...threats are emerging every day. In 1998, for instance, India and Pakistan joined the nuclear armed club-which was worrying enough to the world. But 18 months later, Pakistan underwent a military coup, ejecting the Prime Minister and replacing him with a general. In its case it seems unlikely that the new government is going to nuke anyone, but the coup was a reminder to policy planners of how quickly a situation that just looks "bad" can get worse. Russia's thousands of warheads remain a worry, and some of the more concerned analysts fear that the country is just...