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    Operation PBSuccess. 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état: A military coup brings Alfredo Stroessner to power. Coup d'état of Yanaon: A coup d'état led by Dadala Raphael...
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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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    Edward Bernays (category DeWitt Clinton High School alumni)
    Washington DC; August 2007. Étienne Dasso, "Aux origines du coup d'État de 1954 au Guatemala : le rôle de la United Fruit Company dans la préparation du soulèvement...
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    García, the worsening security situation in Guatemala, and accusations of electoral fraud led to a coup d'état by a group of junior military officers who...
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    (Albania) 1944: Bulgarian coup d'état. 1945: August Revolution 1946–1954: First Indochina War 1948: Czechoslovak coup d'état. 1953–1959: The Cuban Revolution...
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    state media), causing Ceaușescu to angrily denounce the revolution as a coup d'état. Petrișor took the couple to an agricultural centre near Târgoviște,...
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    Fernando Romeo Lucas García (category Defense ministers of Guatemala)
    Montt staged a coup d'état and deposed General Romeo Lucas Garcia. Aside from the junior officers involved in engineering the coup, the coup was not supported...
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    1949. Translated in French by Thierry Le Breton, Au cœur de l’action clandestine. Des Commandos au MI6, L’Esprit du Livre Editions, France, 2008...
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    Central America 1954 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1958–1959 Mexico–Guatemala conflict 1960–1996 Central American crisis 1960–1996 Guatemalan Civil War 1993...
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    Foreign relations of Guinea (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (although he was declared as persona non grata). The September 5, 2021 coup d'etat brought swift condemnation and threats of sanctions from the United Nations...
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    in Guatemalan Civil War U.S. support of Contras U.S. role in Indonesian Communist Purge U.S. role in Invasion of East Timor 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt...
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    ousted from the presidency by a coup (Revolución Libertadora) three months after the Bombing of Plaza de Mayo, a failed coup attempt considered by some as...
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    dissolved in 1992.  Niger – democratization in 1991, but Coup d'état in 1996.  Nigeria – Coup d'état in 1985.  Norway – The Communist Party of Norway changed...
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    his supporters stormed federal government buildings, calling for a coup d'état. On 30 June, the Superior Electoral Court blocked Bolsonaro from seeking...
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    Manuel Estrada Cabrera (category 20th-century presidents of Guatemala)
    successful coup d'état sponsored by the United Fruit Company. Which was located in the former monastery of La Recolección Church in Guatemala City. The...
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    Queipo de Llano, on 21 September 1924 to propose that Queip de Llano organize a coup d'état against Primo. In the end, Franco complied with General Primo's...
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    the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. February 1 A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military...
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    vitriolic critique of him called the "Permanent Coup d'État", quoted a recent opinion poll, saying, "As General de Gaulle, he has entered the pantheon of great...
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    de la CIA. Les ailes de l'Amérique. Frédéric Lert, "les Ailes de la CIA". Histoire et collections. 512 pp., 145 F." Libération (in French). Comme au Tibet...
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    and de-stabilize countries by supplying subversive groups in Latin America throughout the past century (referring to the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état during...
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    the military right-wing dictatorship that followed the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. Plínio Salgado joined the ARENA, the pro-military party. Augusto Rademaker...
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    François Duvalier (category Politicians from Port-au-Prince)
    populist and black nationalist platform. After thwarting a military coup d'état in 1958, his regime rapidly became more autocratic and despotic. An undercover...
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  • His Surrender -- The Embarkation Aided by an Extreme High Tide -- British Au- thorities Taken by Surprise". The New York Times. 3 October 1896. "Augusto...
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    of women and children. After the general strike in 1954, young military reformists staged a coup in October 1955 that installed a provisional junta....
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    Port-de-Paix, Whyte chose to march towards Port-au-Prince, whose harbour was reported to have forty-five ships loaded with sugar. Whyte took Port-au-Prince...
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    Guatemala, it backed a coup against Arbenz in 1954, overthrowing him. Argentine Che Guevara was in Guatemala during the Arbenz presidency; the coup ousting...
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    La Línea corruption case (category 2015 in Guatemala)
    closely with the extreme right-wing party Movimiento de Liberación Nacional – MLN – and thus stop coup d'état attempts against president Cerezo. With CIA help...
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    began as an anti-communist purge following a controversial attempted coup d'état by the 30 September Movement. It was a pivotal event in the transition...
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    October 1974 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the former President of Greece, and 4 other leaders of the 1967 Greek coup d'état — Stylianos Pattakos, Nikolaos Makarezos, Ioannis Ladas and Michael Roufogalis...
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    Invasion of the Soviet Union. After the Communist-dominated Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944 of 9 September, the Bulgarian government declared war on Germany...
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