coup d'etat
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“It’s a coup d’état,” Gomina answered.
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup d'etat, underwent successful surgery on Thursday to repair an inguinal hernia, his wife said.
From Barron's
When I wrote “Coup d’Etat: A Practical Handbook” in 1968, I didn’t anticipate that it would still be in print in many languages.
Elsewhere we learn that, during the 1978 coup d’état, the hotel’s chefs “whipped up special dishes, turning tender steaks and scrumptious cakes into weapons of distraction.”
Democracy was restored months later, after the Greek junta engineered a botched coup d'etat in Cyprus that prompted a Turkish invasion.
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