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With its recent history of turmoil and military coups, that country is hardly in a happy state at the moment.

Her greatest achievement was to survive seven attempted coups and hand over peacefully at the end of her six-year term.

Within a few years of the crash, 16 countries suffered military coups or takeovers by strong men in Latin America alone.

But there is every chance that his years of good living could prove a more imminent threat to the regime than internal coups and bombers.

Little over a decade earlier, our neighbors had been plagued with civil wars, coups, dictators, closed economies, and desperate poverty.

We thought we were in an era when military coups were no longer possible in this hemisphere.

At least a dozen coups or coup attempts in Africa were traced to his backing.

and was the leading cause of insurgencies, military coups, and weak or disorganized governments.

Military coups and political repression did not help make the case for membership of Europe's democratic club.

Finally, regular and credible elections are one of Latin America's greatest recent achievements, given its history of military coups.

But a string of leaks about attempted coups and botched operations against the PKK have dented the generals' image.

Coups and counter-coups were followed by the long military rule of Hossain Muhammad Ershad.

Now, thanks to a series of recent laboratory coups, the once-baffling components of our biological clocks have become clearer.

It would also be anathema to the African Union's principled stand against military coups.

The man who claims credit for two military coups said democratic elections are now the only way someone should come to power in Mauritania.

Election results have been almost always contested, leading to a rash of coups and mutinies.

The army, responsible for four coups in the last five decades, warned against the selection.

Spain was briefly a Republic, from 1871 to 1873, a year in which a series of coups reinstalled the monarchy.

Democratic penetration in the continent expanded after the 1980s, Valenzuela said, as evidenced by the diminishing number of military coups.

His dream of a unified Arab world helped inspire convulsions and coups from Lebanon to Iraq.

They are characterized by their dished faces, level coups, and their appearance of floating on air.

But these challenges, including the attempted coups and continuing agitation from pressure groups, limited her options.

For Pakistan to break this vicious circle, it needs an army that renounces coups, come what may.

You developed a wonderful beard, which you plan to keep, but learned that you don't have the stomach for bloody coups.

He tried to launch coups in Yemen and Benin and fought for secession in Biafra.

Depending on how one counts, Haiti has undergone approximately 33 coups d'etat over its 207 years of existence.

The state failed to perform a single legal transfer of power; coups were commonplace.

The African Union recently suspended two other members, Mauritania and Guinea after military coups.

Along the way, you can bargain, trade, steal, borrow and even engineer military coups to gain businesses and outfox opponents.

China and Africa have long-lasting political instability, several mutinies and coups.

West African leaders have agreed to send troops to Mali and Guinea-Bissau following coups in both countries.

All three saw many years in which democratic rule was regularly punctuated by military coups.

Fiji has coups, the Solomons has scandals, and almost all have struggling economies.

Power has all too often changed hands through violent, destabilizing coups.

Ratu Mara died in 2004, but lived long enough to watch his country experience debilitating coups in 1987, and again in 2000.

To many in Latin America Mr Zelaya's ousting recalled the nightmare of past military coups.

The coups continue, but the judgment looks increasingly faulty.

The army's internal service law, which justifies coups, will be amended. Mandatory army service will be cut from 15 months to six.

Coups are bad whatever the political colour of their victims.

Another factor reducing the likelihood of military coups is North Korea's class system, which is divided into three tiers.

But once the old man had gone, the country succumbed to coups, chaos and ethnic division.

As coups almost always do, this one caused more problems than it solved.

Sunni officers staged three coups in quick succession after independence in 1946.

Natural imitation, heroic, based on coups, inch, with this one black and one white, know a, can win the whole.

Haiti has seen 32 coups during the over 200 years since it was independent.

Should it be bankrolling coups in Latin America?

LIKE most human follies, military coups sound good at the time; and always fail.

Guinea Bissau has a history of coups and coup attempts.

Guinea and Mauritania were also suspended after coups in 2008.

In Thailand, generals have a long tradition of coups and heavy-handed intervention in matters of state.

And are the days of coups over?

CIA operatives had helped engineer coups in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.

We've had a lot of coups in my country too.

We will make history and there will be no more coups in Thailand.

Even the best-intentioned coups leave an ugly mess, such as that now facing Thailand.

military coups , like wars , are easy to start but hard to end

Unlike its predecessor, the AU has reversed several coups, mostly in small places such as the Comoro islands, Togo, and Sã

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