Sentences with phrase «military coup»

Historical romance thriller set against the Chilean military coup.

A third military coup took place in 1980 but within two years the military had turned the power back to the civilian government.

Unmarked graves are seen at the «Traitors» Cemetery», set up specifically to bury the bodies of coup plotters who died in the failed military coup of July 15, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 29, 2016.

Inside Story — Two years after military coup: How stable is Egypt?

1981 - President Limann ousted in military coup led by Lt Rawlings after two years of weak government and economic stagnation.

He is among the dozens of Turkish soldiers accused of trying to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan and the government in a failed military coup this month, his fate a sign of the fury felt over a night of bloodletting that killed more than 240 people.

There's no czar or military coup attempting to seize power and take our autonomy from us.

Born and raised in Santiago, she was exiled during the early 1970s after the violent military coup against President Salvador Allende.

It was political violence which led to the first military coup in Nigeria.

• The NPP pretends to hate military coup d'etat.

The enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard - scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts.

Forty - one years ago this month, a violent military coup in Chile led by Army Commander - in - Chief Augusto Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically - elected government.

He was in his fourth year at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba when a right - wing military coup deposed the elected government and advanced over all aspects of the country's life, including education.

Historically, Turkish military coups were carried out by secular elements in the army, aiming to protect the secular heritage of Atatürk.

«In Africa, the era of military coups seems to be fading into distant memory with the upsurge of democratically - elected leaders,» he...

I've been through military coups, terrorist attacks and mob protests in China, Turkey, France and Spain and was in London during the subway bombing.

He was in his fourth year at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba when a right - wing military coup deposed the elected government and advanced over all aspects of the country's life,

For Turkish researchers and educators, the aftershocks of the failed 20 July military coup are continuing.

If you haven't heard about the recent non-coup military coup in Zimbabwe, you might want to catch up.

As a missionary kid growing up in Guatemala, I survived the destructive effects of a massive earthquake and a major military coup.

Let the atonement be a dollars - and - cents substitutionary transaction between an aloof, righteous judge of a God and sinful humanity or else a mythical Christus Victor military coup.

(MSN) War is all - too - common in the Central African Republic (CAR), now on its fifth military coup in five decades.

On July 15, 2016, Turkey experienced a horrific event: an unsuccessful military coup.

Parra's repertoire included a 2013 album «Venceremos», a homage to former Chilean president Salvador Allende who committed suicide after being ousted in a CIA - sponsored military coup in 1973, and an acclaimed CD of his mother's songs.

Yeah, Charlie Rangel, in collaboration with Tony Rezko and William Ayers, and under the supervision of ACORN, are planning a secret military coup to have Blagojevich installed as President of Alabama.

When the power went out on the island of Luzon in the Philippines in 1999, locals thought a long - feared military coup was under way.

And I haven't even described the re-enactments of the Indonesian military coup that the film uses as its starting point, all of which accentuate the stomach - churning feeling that goes on throughout Oppenheimer's film.

«America First» plays along with that ruse for much of its running time, sending Carrie Matheson (Claire Danes) and Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend) on a last - ditch mission to save President - elect Elizabeth Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) from some sort of half - baked military coup.

Directed by Florian Gallenberger (John Rabe), Colonia is set in Chile in the 1970s, when General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in a brutal military coup.

76 The telling of a significant (but failed) Nigerian military coup in the 1970s, the acting here more than compensates for the occasionally muddled narrative.

The debate as to whether portraying horrific acts, specifically torture, is classed as endorsing it has somehow taken wind and become the lead talking point (especially odd since surely nobody would suggest Argo endorses military coups, or that Django Unchained endorses violent revenge, no matter how racist the person may be), and it has distracted many from discussing the film on any other level.

Naturally, any country that can boast no fewer than seventeen military coups between 1932 (the year Thailand introduced a constitutional monarchy) and 1991, plus another in 2006, leaves little doubt as to its proclivity for political unrest.

Costa Rica has not had an army since 1948 when President Ferrer abolished the army to prevent the possibility of future military coups (which have been common in Central America).

Discussing his interest in light as a source of understanding the world, the artist notes how the hypnotic Fireworks (Archives)-- created around the wake of the 2014 Thai military coup — reveals the relationship of light to the beyond hidden contexts of Thailand's Northeastern political memory and beliefs, as well as the silent, rebellious spirit of the people.

Abousfian Abdelrazik was jailed in Sudan in 1989 after the successful military coup of Omar Al - Bashir.

Reasons for political evacuations include military coups and political unrest.

The aim was to witness the expected show trial of former ministers of the democratically elected Allende government which had been overthrown in a bloody military coup led by Augusto Pinochet in September 1973.

Exercise Damisa was the cover in the North for the first military coup staged in Nigeria.

According to this source, Turkish government has operated tremendous changes after the failed military coup:

The democratically elected government of Chile had been overthrown in the bloody military coup led by the late unlamented Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973.

Colonia tells the story of Lena and Daniel, a young couple who become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973.

I was born in Liberia, West Africa, where my father served in the Special Security Service of President Samuel Doe (no relation), who had come to power through a violent military coup ten years earlier.