Word: coups
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...January poll that many opposition activists and political observers fear will be rigged. Musharraf declared emergency rule six weeks ago, just as the Supreme Court was about to decide whether his election to another term as President was legal. The President, who came to power in a bloodless military coup in 1999 and finally stood down as army chief last month, arrested and sacked the most independent-minded members of the Court and has stacked it with loyalists...
...economy was good then," insists taxi driver Narongsak Iamsamorn, 39, who hasn't decided who to vote for this time round. "But now Vietnam is laughing at us. Even a schoolchild can tell you how bad our economy is." His fares have dropped by two-thirds since the coup. "I want Thaksin to come back and make Thailand better again," he says...
...leads the next government, that homecoming is assured - Samak has promised to pardon Thaksin and his ex-TRT colleagues. How the military will react is unclear. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who led the 2006 coup and has since appointed himself a Deputy Prime Minister, has promised to "accept the people's judgment." After campaigning began, the military announced that it needed nearly $9 billion over 10 years to modernize and buy new weapons, which reads very much like the price of its loyalty to the next government...
...while Harvard may not pay much heed to the polls, the rest of the nation is certainly aware of the Crimson’s recent coup of the top spot, and from here on out Harvard will be playing with a bulls’-eye on its back...
...privately-owned Radio Caracas TV to broadcast over public airwaves (it continued on cable and satellite). And while the decision might well have been unwise, the facts of the government’s case were rarely made available. RCTV had, after all, actively participated in the failed coup attempt in April 2002, encouraging the public to take to the streets and falsely suggesting that Chavez’s forces had been firing on unarmed protestors. When the Venezuelan people flooded the streets demanding Chavez’s return two days after he had been ousted from power, the station broadcast...