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Jan 31, 2022 · In February 2021, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders staged a coup. The move came after the military’s proxy party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP),...
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1994 Gambian coup d'état: A group of soldiers led by Lieutenant Yahya Jammeh seized power in a bloodless coup on 22 July, ousting Dawda Jawara, who had been President of the Gambia since its independence in 1970.
Combining both spatial and temporal trends, Figure 3 displays the frequency of coups over time by region. As can see, Latin America led the charge with coup activity until around 1970, and then Africa has largely led since. These trends are generally consistent with regions studied by coup scholars.
The U.S. government supported the 1971 coup led by General Hugo Banzer that toppled President Juan José Torres of Bolivia, who had himself come to power in a coup the previous year. [260] [261] Torres was kidnapped and assassinated in 1976 as part of Operation Condor .
The coup began on 23 February 1981 when Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero, along with 200 armed Civil Guard officers, stormed the Congress of Deputies chamber in Madrid during a vote to swear in Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as President of the Government.
- 23-24 February 1981
- Madrid and Valencia, Spain
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For purposes of this compilation, a coup d’état is defined as a forceful seizure of executive authority and office by a dissident/opposition faction within the country’s ruling or political elites that results in a substantial change in the executive leadership and the policies of the prior regime (although not necessarily in the nature of regim...
Jan 27, 2024 · A military coup followed this in Nigeria that began on the 15th of January 1966, led by Major General Nzeogwu, whose soldiers were trained in the United Kingdom (Siollun, 2016). The coup d’état was to end corruption and ethnic rivalry.
