Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Chile's Marxist President, Salvador Allende Gossens, was overthrown and killed...
...begun to take prominent politicians into custody. They temporarily cut international telephone and telex lines and closed down airports, border posts and the port of Lagos. At 7:30, a member of the new junta, Brigadier Sana Abacha, announced over Nigerian radio that the Shagari government had been overthrown. For the most part, Nigerians seemed to accept the news with a shrug and an instinct that the change was not going to make matters any worse...
...massive crimes through the smokescreen of invective. He also warned, on the eve of World War II, that matters could deteriorate: "The terrifying thing about the modern dictatorships is that they are something entirely unprecedented. Their end cannot be foreseen. In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown, or at least resisted, because of 'human nature,' which as a matter of course desired liberty. But we cannot be at all certain that 'human nature' is constant . . . The radio, press-censorship, standardized education and the secret police have altered everything. Mass-suggestion is a science...
...final destination on this mini-tour of the political underworld is fittingly, Washington D.C., where the military government of Chile murdered one of its exiled opponents with a car bomb in 1976. Chile's democratically elected government was brutally overthrown in 1973, when the U.S. engineered a coup that put General Augusto Pinochet in power...
...Quinonezes were members of the "14 families," the wealthy oligarchs who controlled El Salvador's economy and military until 1979. Roberto Quinonez Meza was Ambassador to the U.S. from 1977 to 1979, when General Carlos Humberto Romero was overthrown in a coup. Quinonez moved to Miami, where he has been outspoken in opposition to Communism in Central America. But the FBI was skeptical that the kidnaping was politically motivated...