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Before she even celebrated her first birthday, Marques was forced to separate from her mother and flee her birthplace in northeastern Brazil. When Marques was only nine months old, her father was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the brutal military regime that had taken over the country in a coup d’état nearly a decade earlier...
...escape the country. Marques’ mother fled to Chile, and a family friend took charge of the infant Marques. The child and her mother reunited in Chile, believing they had found their safe haven, but their hopes were dashed only a few days later when a military coup overthrew democratically-elected president Salvador Allende and elevated General Augusto Pinochet to power...
...started from utter lawlessness, virtual disintegration in 2007," says Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister - an economist who graduated from the University of Texas and spent much of his career at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The Palestinian Authority had been sundered by the Hamas coup in Gaza; Fayyad - a technocrat's technocrat - freely admits that governance in the West Bank had long been marked by corruption and ineptitude. "The only way to gain Palestinian statehood," Fayyad says, "was to start building the institutions of a credible state...
...baffled the Danes at first, but then they laughed and cheered and generally acted as if a circus had come to town. A Turkish artist, Koken Ergun, had organized the stunt to make a point: most Westerners have no idea of what it means to wake up to a coup, with tanks rumbling through the streets, TV stations seized and a sense of fear in the air. Yet it is an all too familiar memory in Turkey, which has experienced four coups in the last 60 years carried out by military commanders who see themselves as guardians of the secular...
...Monday evening, I was at a dinner with a group of Kurdish filmmakers - all sadly no strangers to being picked up by the police and interrogated at dawn - who joked darkly about what the country might wake up to the following morning. "Part of you thinks, 'No way, a coup just isn't possible anymore,'" one of the filmmakers told me. "But there's always a niggling little voice in your head." (Read "Can Obama Keep Eastward-Looking Turkey On Side...