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  • He started cradled in the arms of the coupist and now defunct [ally of the dictatorship] UDN Party (National Democratic Union), made himself comfortable in ARENA's arbitrary embrace – that is the National Renewal Alliance Party the civil arm of the military dictatorship that he ungratefully left behind when the political situation changed.

    Global Voices in English » Brazil: Digital mob demands the Senate President’s resignation 2009

  • "The casualties sustained by the ECOMOG Force is less than a tenth of what is being peddled by the coupist (sic) radio, on which most international and home media have based their publications," it said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • I was remembering the general strike that paralyzed the whole country, which dashed the attempt to destroy the revolution by coupist military men.

    CASTRO SPEECH AT CHILD CARE CENTER TAKE 15 OF 17 1988

  • Bolivian, people call for unity to crush coupist and fascist attempts.

    26 JULY ANNIVERSARY 1971

  • Several of the worker and student delegates said that the Bolivian people -- through the Peoples Assembly -- are on constant alert against the coupist threat and that any such attempt in Bolivia would meet with strong resistance.

    MEETINGS WITH VISITING BOLIVIAN DELEGATIONS 1971

  • There is a story that Iribarren was the friend of an individual who had relations with the masterminds behind a rightist coupist plot by the Ramo Verde garrison in October.

    FIDEL CASTRO 13 MARCH ANNIVERSARY SPEECH 1967

  • We, as Marxist-Leninists, cannot honor that coupist procedure against the masses and the party.

    DELEGATES TO 9TH WORLD YOUTH AND STUDENT FESTIVA 1965

  • Aside being a consummate coupist, one reputed to have taken part in all but one of Nigeria's coups including the one that inaugurated his 'open door' regime twenty-five years ago, Babangida, is believed in certain quarters to have single-handedly foiled the bloody coup led by the drunken Buka Suka Dimka in which then head of state, Murtala Ramat Mohammed, was assassinated.

    Vanguard alexsamade 2010

  • Aside being a consummate coupist, one reputed to have taken part in all but one of Nigeria's coups including the one that inaugurated his 'open door' regime twenty-five years ago, Babangida, is believed in certain quarters to have single-handedly foiled the bloody coup led by the drunken Buka Suka Dimka in which then head of state, Murtala Ramat Mohammed, was assassinated.

    Vanguard alexsamade 2010

  • Here is another question for you, seditious Mauritian: were you a member of the mercenary force in Sierra Leone fighting for the soupist coupist NPRC regime of Strasser, now a drug addict in Freetown?

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

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  • "There will be no new operating licence for this coupist TV channel - the measure has been drafted so go turn off the equipment." --Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, as translated by BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6215815.stm

    December 30, 2006