Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President and a longtime leftist union leader. In a surprise raid, Barrientos' police had picked him up in his home and packed him off to exile in Paraguay aboard an air force C-47. Lechin's crime, according to Barrientos, was masterminding a "Communist conspiracy" to overthrow the Bolivian government. "Bolivia was at the crossroads," cried Barrientos in a radio speech. "The choice was Communism or democracy...
...PIGS. This fiasco of the new Kennedy Administration in April 1961 is blamed in retrospect by State Department officials on a storm of "angry world opinion" that scared off the U.S. Government from carrying through the overthrow of Castro it had secretly planned. Yet some of the U.S.'s staunchest allies were (unofficially) more appalled by the U.S.'s display of faint heart...
...Cambodia, are being probed by Communist terror and subversion. More than a dozen village officials have been assassinated; Communist arms, men and propaganda filter across the Mekong River from Red-infected Laos in ever-increasing volume. The Thai Communist Party has vowed to "drive the U.S. imperialists out and overthrow the traitorous, fascist and dictatorial Bangkok government." Fortunately, the Bangkok government, backed by U.S. aid, has for the past three years been preparing the battleground to its own advantage...
Barnes said that President Johnson had greeted Bosch's election as a step toward Democracy in Dominican National elections of 1962. Now, Barnes continued, Johnson is supporting a regime that helped to overthrow Bosch...
...funds through Italy's Communist Party to Venezuela's terrorist Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), the doctor and his girl were the first suspects to be nabbed hot off a plane from Rome. Also arrested in Caracas last week, after intelligence reports of a conspiracy to overthrow the regime of President Raul Leoni, were 43 persons, including 13 members of the presidential guard...