Word: overthrows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese and Filipinos, in particular, know what it's like to have tanks on their streets. Why, then, do so many of them support the Thai military's overthrow of Thaksin Shinawatra? The answer says a lot about the state of politics and democracy in many Asian countries?not much of it good...
...Arroyo is now so dependent on the support of the Philippine military that many Filipinos might argue that a "soft coup" has already taken place in their country. Earlier this year Arroyo declared a brief state of emergency after supposedly foiling the latest in a series of plots to overthrow her. But a pro-Arroyo senator interviewed by TIME suggests the President is more likely to "do a Marcos" and declare martial law. "That's the only way for her to stay in power," he says...
When Chávez went to jail in 1992 for attempting to overthrow the government, the joke on the streets was that he deserved 30 years: one for the coup and 29 for failing. The incident won him admiration among ordinary Venezuelans, who backed Chávez for taking a stand against their criminally corrupt élite, who for decades had pillaged the oil wealth and left half the population in poverty. That popular support got him and his comrades released, and Chávez set out to take power at the ballot box instead. In 1998 he won a landslide presidential victory...
...There's also the delicate matter of accepting democracy's outcome when it goes against U.S. preferences. Although the Administration has done that in Iraq - supporting an elected government closer to Iran than it is to Washington - in the Palestinian territories it initially did just the opposite, seeking to overthrow the newly elected Hamas government though a financial blockade. Bush's suggestion Tuesday that "the world is waiting to see whether the Hamas government will follow through on its promises [of ending corruption and improving the lives of the Palestinian people], or pursue an extremist agenda" would certainly have been...
...Posada, a self-styled freedom fighter, has been involved in anti-Castro activities for decades. In the early 1960s, he worked with the CIA in an attempt to overthrow Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion and in 2000 was arrested in Panama in an alleged plot to assassinate the Cuban president, according to court documents filed in the Fifth District Court in El Paso, where he is being held in detention. The charges in the assassination attempt were later dropped, but Posada was charged with national security and counterfeiting crimes and received a sentence of eight years in prison...