Word: coups
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Honduras has a new President, at least in name: wealthy cattle rancher Porfirio Lobo, who won 56% of the vote in the nation's Nov. 29 elections. But supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, deposed in a June coup, are urging Hondurans to reject the new government, while neighboring states have said they will not restore ties unless Zelaya is reinstated to finish his term. The U.S. is under fire for saying it would recognize Lobo's government regardless...
Among them were leftists like Jara and, as the court has now declared, moderates like Frei Montalva, who was President from 1964 to 1970. He was succeeded by Salvador Allende, whose sharp leftward turn alarmed Chile's conservatives and prompted Pinochet's ironfisted 1973 military coup. Along with thousands of others in the putsch's early and darkest days, Jara was rounded up and held in Chile Stadium in the capital, Santiago. After he was tortured and killed, his body was tossed into the streets. Frei Montalva originally backed Pinochet's rule, but by the 1980s opposed it. According...
...addition, Reuss takes aim at GM's past leadership. "We also have to do a better job of anticipating what the market wants. We have to be a little more agile," he says. Reuss's father Lloyd served as GM president before being removed in a 1992 boardroom coup that ultimately failed to change the company...
...South African memoirist Rian Malan ended his dismal assessment of the nation's prospects ("Not civil war, but sad decay") in British magazine the Spectator by asking: "Anyone want a house here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that path "leads to a banana republic." This February, Afrikaner author André Brink published a memoir in which he described the "disillusionment, resentment, and rage tinged with despair" over...
...well last another 10, in part because he's exploited Washington's election obsession. He's been cleanly voted in three times and that's helped him retain a democratic legitimacy despite his hegemonic power inside Venezuela. Valenzuela insists that the recent Honduran election doesn't whitewash the coup; but Amselem recently told the OAS he thought it would. Now, by recognizing its results, after earlier warning that he wouldn't, Obama has essentially accepted Amselem's dubious principle...