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3 giorni fa · The 1970s ushered in a period of military dictatorship and repression during which thousands of presumed dissidents were “disappeared,” or murdered; this ended in the disastrous Falklands Islands War of 1982, when Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands it claimed as its own and was defeated by British forces in a short but bloody campaign.
3 giorni fa · Brazilian military junta of 1969: Pedro Aleixo, the legal vice president of Brazil, was replaced by a military junta after Artur da Costa e Silva suffered a stroke. 1969 Saudi Arabian coup d'état attempt : A failed coup d'état, planned by numerous high-ranking members of the Royal Saudi Air Force , resulted in King Faisal ordering the arrest of hundreds of military officers.
5 giorni fa · Brazil - Collor, corruption, and inflation: Brazil’s old-regime elites and military continued to inhibit reform of the political system in the early 1990s, while the country’s voters became disaffected and cynical, and the political parties remained superficial, depending on personality cults rather than platforms that addressed specific problems.
8 ore fa · t. e. The 1973 Chilean coup d'état ( Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. [10] [11] Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal ...
3 giorni fa · Paraguay - Dictatorship, Stroessner, Repression: The authoritarian Stroessner, with aid from the United States and later Brazil, managed to stabilize one of the world’s least-stable currencies, attract foreign investment, and embark on large public works projects. Paraguayan isolation was broken down. However, harsh rule was not relaxed after 1960. Though elections on all levels were ...
4 giorni fa · Portugal - Constitutionalism, Autonomy, Sovereignty: The Napoleonic campaigns caused great devastation in Portugal, and the absence of the royal family and the presence of a foreign commander (Beresford) combined with revolutionary agitation and the influence of Spanish liberalism to produce an atmosphere of discontent. On December 16, 1815, Brazil was raised to the rank of a kingdom united ...
5 giorni fa · Brazil - Independence, Portuguese, Empire: Brazil entered nationhood with considerably less strife and bloodshed than did the Spanish-speaking nations of the New World; however, the transition was not entirely peaceful. José Joaquim da Silva Xavier, popularly known as Tiradentes (“Tooth Puller”), instigated in 1789 the first rebellion against the Portuguese, who defeated his forces ...
