"coup" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- General Barrientos came to power in the aftermath of the overthrow of the MNR-dominated government of Paz Estenssoro in a CIA-backed coup.
- In Guatemala, a CIA-backed military coup ousted the left-wing President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954.
- Let's take a look at a few of them: Iran - In 1953, a CIA-backed coup ousted Iran's popular prime minister and restored power to the Shah of Iran.
- On February 24, 1966, Nkrumah was overthrown by an allegedly CIA-backed coup.
- Eventually a CIA-backed coup ("Operation Freedom") made the country into a military dictatorship which it remains to this day.
- Since the CIA-backed coup in 1954, opposition groups were continuously forming in an attempt to fight against the repression that the military and wealthy landowners in Guatemala had created.
- An Iranian Odyssey (about the CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran)
- June 18: The elected leftist Guatemalan government is overthrown in a CIA-backed coup.
- Chile's democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown during a CIA-backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet.
- In 1965, a CIA-backed military coup brought down this government and installed army chief Mobutu as president.
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