"Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup……" — Elliott Abrams

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• Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have… — Hugo Chavez
• Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is… — Alexis Tsipras
• I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat. — Thaksin Shinawatra
• That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a… — Manohla Dargis
• We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
• My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we… — Corazon Aquino
• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are… — Orhan Pamuk
• If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests… — Gough Whitlam
• The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and… — B. H. Liddell Hart
• There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup… — Gene Sharp
• I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because… — Iris Apfel
• Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring… — Winston Churchill

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