Word: junta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote was a turning point on Chile's long road back to a nearly 150-year tradition of democracy, which was toppled in the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power. Since ousting the elected, but floundering, government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, Pinochet has led a military junta that routinely uses terror to enforce its will. Deep scars remain from a 1973-76 antileftist purge in which tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled, tortured or executed. Meanwhile, the politically explosive gulf between rich and poor has steadily grown wider. "We broke an authoritarian system," said Ricardo Lagos...
Fernandez formally conceded defeat early today after an emergency meeting with Pinochet, the four-man military junta that serves as a legislature and the 15-member Cabinet...
When Leslie Manigat emerged as the victor in Haiti's presidential elections last January, it was assumed that the former political exile would act as a puppet for the outgoing military junta led by Lieut. General Henri Namphy. But last week it was the puppet who pulled the strings. In a communique read over Haitian television and radio, Manigat dismissed Namphy as Commander in Chief of the army for "insubordination" and fired two other generals on Namphy's staff...
...seems kind of cut and dry," said Sandra E. Junta '91 of the process. "If you're happy with your rooming group, it doesn't matter where you get stuck, except for the Quad," the swim team member and Thayer Hall resident said...
...Manigat is finally declared the winner, he will be sworn in as President on Feb. 7. For Haiti's junta, meanwhile, it was business as usual. Police arrested Opposition Leader Louis Dejoie at Port-au-Prince airport as he returned from criticizing the government on a trip abroad and charged him with fomenting civil war. Dejoie was released two days later after hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the National Penitentiary, where he was being held...