Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third day, as two men died in more fighting and a strike 'brought business to a halt, the army stepped in. First it asked the government to set aside the election. Then, after a nine-hour meeting of 240 top officers, it named a three-colonel junta to take over. The junta quickly promised new elections at the first opportunity...
Barely a week after it peacefully chose a President-elect, Haiti went back to the jungle law that has ruled the island for almost a year. As losing candidate Louis Déjoie fled into hiding, vanished, vowing trouble, the ruling military junta issued a panicky decree authorizing plain citizens to shoot on sight "outlaws," i.e., political opponents of the government. The U.S. embassy warned American citizens of the growing danger and began flying families of U.S. officials to Puerto Rico. Reason: in the growing breakdown of law and order, one U.S. citizen had already been brutally killed...
False Promises. To avoid arrest, Talamas fled to the U.S. embassy. But a few hours later, on the advice of U.S. embassy officials who twice received Haitian government assurances that he would not be mistreated, he surrendered to the police. Next morning, Colonel Louis Roumain, the junta's foreign affairs chief, informed the inquiring embassy that during the night. Talamas assaulted an officer and in the "scuffle" suffered a "heart attack" and died. Accompanied by U.S. officials, three U.S. doctors examined the body, found it a mass of ugly bruises and welts, and the State Department issued the official...
...Honduran election brought power at last to Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, who won an election three years ago but was counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated some of his leftist ideas. As Villeda stopped talking of doubling and tripling wages, the junta warmed to him, decided to let the voters elect a constituent assembly. In last week's balloting, Villeda's Liberals won 36 out of the 58 seats. The assembly also has legislative powers...
...main difference between the two countries was in the aftermaths. In Honduras the junta leader declared his task ended, announced that he was taking a long vacation. But in Haiti the junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...