Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homemade bombs, one of them exploding accidentally and one of them failing to explode as planned, last week touched off an automatic reaction by Venezuela's jumpy military junta: cries of revolt and arrests by the hundreds...
...little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast...
...Then, though Venezuela now lives under a military dictatorship, he said forthrightly that armies should not mix in government: "Anyone who uses the army as an instrument for political aspirations is defeated beforehand." After this ringing statement, Plaza tactfully decorated the three members of Venezuela's ruling junta...
...After two years of troubles which threatened to bring in a fascist as his successor, the country was turned over to an army junta...
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...