The coup de grace came in the 1920's, when a new coastal road was cut through the front of the old cemetery.
Although the coup itself did not come as a surprise, the timing caught the international community off-guard.
Mr. Kaufman's coup comes with a critical question mark, however.
Only after the fact did hard-liners "remind" us that they knew the coup was coming all the time.
The coup came just seven months after he was elected in Haiti's first national democratic elections.
At around the same time, the coup against him came to a premature end.
A coup like this comes along once in a career, twice if you're lucky.
Metrowerks' biggest coup, though, has come in the video game field.
East's coup at trick one came to the attention of the authorities.
When the coup came, many welcomed it, not anticipating the bloodshed to come.