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    A coup d'état was attempted in Spain in February 1981 by elements of the Civil Guard and the Spanish military. The failure of the coup marked the last...
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  • 2 June 1985 coup d'état attempt was a conspiracy planned by a group of military personnel to overthrow the Spanish government. The coup, which did not...
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    Operation Quartz 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt (also known as 23-F or the Tejerazo): Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero attempted a coup in which members...
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  • This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow the government...
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  • military coups since independence from France in 1960, with the most recent having occurred in 2010. In between, there were also several coup attempts, the...
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    The coup d'état of Primo de Rivera took place in Spain between September 13 and 15, 1923 and was led by the then Captain General of Catalonia Miguel Primo...
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    The Jamaat al Muslimeen coup d'état attempt was an attempt to overthrow the government of Trinidad and Tobago, instigated on Friday, 27 July 1990. Over...
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    Former king Juan Carlos I's intervention and foiling of the 1981 Spanish coup attempt by some 200 disgruntled Civil Guard officers is but one example...
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    The 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt, also known as the Wonga Coup, failed to replace President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo with exiled opposition...
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    The 1997 Zambian coup d'état attempt was a military coup d'état attempt that took place in Zambia on 28 October 1997. The coup lasted no more than 3 hours...
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    The 1990 Zambian coup d'état attempt was a military coup d'état attempt that took place in Zambia on 1 July 1990. The coup lasted no more than 6 hours...
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  • The 1972 Salvadoran coup d'état attempt occurred from 25 to 26 March 1972 when young military officers attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel Sánchez...
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    Alfonso Armada (category Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (National faction))
    1 December 2013) was a Spanish military officer involved in both the Spanish Civil War and the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt. Armada was born into an...
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    Bongo was re-elected in an election in 2016 which prompted a failed coup attempt in 2019. During the rule of the Bongo family the country had been plagued...
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    Antonio Tejero (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Spanish former lieutenant colonel of the Guardia Civil, and the most prominent figure in the failed coup d'état against the newly democratic Spanish government...
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    Guinea's "apparent coup d'état" violated ECOWAS rules, and urged the country to return to the constitutional order.  Spain: The Spanish Government condemned...
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    A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a nation's head, having come to power...
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    the coup attempt: "Turkey opposes all attempts to illegally overthrow democratically elected governments".  Nigeria: Alluding to the coup attempt, President...
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  • as a self-coup by multiple sources. On the same day, Banzer dismissed Minister José Patiño Ayoroa, accusing him of links to the coup attempt. The decline...
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    Retrieved 20 August 2020. "Official Statement 054 - Attempted coup d'état in Mali". exteriores.gob.es. Spanish Foreign Ministry. 19 August 2020. Archived from...
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    The 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt, popularly known as the Skhirat coup d'état (Arabic: محاولة انقلاب الصخيرات, French: Coup d'état de Skhirat), was...
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    Jaime Milans del Bosch (category Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (National faction))
    lieutenant general in the Spanish Army who was dismissed and imprisoned in 1981 for his role in the failed coup d'état of 23 February 1981. Milans del Bosch was...
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    Ndongo attempted a coup the following year; he was captured and executed, and the backlash to the presumed Spanish involvement in the coup led to a...
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  • Operation Galaxia (category Attempted coups in Spain)
    Operation Galaxia (Spanish: Operación Galaxia) was the codename given to the plan which preceded the 23-F attempted coup d'état in Spain. It was named Galaxia...
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    The 1973 Chilean coup d'état (Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador...
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    The 1976 Argentine coup d'état overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24 March 1976. A military junta was installed to replace her; this was...
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  • Ricardo Pardo Zancada (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    (born 1935) is a Spanish former military commander. He was commanding officer and he was involved in the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt, so he was sentenced...
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    reform. 1952 Egyptian Revolution 1969 Libyan coup attempt 2013 Libyan coup attempt 2014 Libyan coup attempts Cultural Revolution in Libya Little, Douglas...
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  • being released on 1988. 1969 Libyan coup d'état 2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt 2014 Libyan coup d'état attempts Cooley, John K. (1983). Libyan Sandstorm...
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  • The 1968 Panamanian coup d'état was the military coup that took place in the Republic of Panama on October 11, 1968, when the National Guard, led by Major...
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