Word: cuartelazo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the Beginning. The barracks-bred coup is so common in Latin America that latinos have a word for it: cuartelazo (from cuartel, barrack). Declared the manifesto of Bolivia's new junta: "This is not a cuartelazo.''' According to the junta, "the anarchic tendencies of certain groups" necessitated the army's "temporary presence in power." Authority will be restored "as soon as possible, to him who, by the constitution, has the right...
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