coup d'état

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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 • Dec. 25, 2025

In the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, there has been a civil war going on since a military coup d’etat in 2021.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2023

West Africa's main regional and economic bloc, ECOWAS, said it was concerned about an attempted coup d'etat and called on the plotters to free Bazoum.

From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2023

The beginning of 2000 saw an Ecuadorean coup d’etat.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

AT the beginning of the year 1874 a coup d'etat placed Serrano again at the head of the government in Spain, but in Cuba there was no change.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher