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According to non-governmental organizations that keep such statistics, since 1945, in Europe and the Americas, there has been a steep decline in interstate wars, in deadly ethnic riots or pogroms, and in military coups, even in South America.
There were no coups.
You see, all these countries I lived in, the coups d'état and the corruption I'd seen in Ghana and Gambia and in Zimbabwe, contrasted with the wonderful examples I had seen in Botswana and in South Africa of good leadership.
When you hear Babangida, you remember the military and military coups.
But they came down, and our leaders even managed to dampen some coups.
This film aka "the four hundred blows" is a mistranslation.Faire les 400 coups" means"to live a wild life.
1.It's not the first film of the "nouvelle vague" move;check Agnes Varda's "la pointe courte",(1956)Alain Resnais's "Hiroshima mon amour"(1958),Claude Chabrol's "le beau serge"(1958) are anterior .Historically,"les 400 coups " comes after.
It sheds light on the manipulation of the people by corporate media, the misinformation, the artificial polarization of the people by deliberately creating tension on the streets, sometimes to the point that the army, intelligence agency or even the government(many believe,led by the US) uses agents who attack "any" side to provoke the masses into violence and therefore justifying their coups.
I keep wishing someone would release it on DVD-- especially with Nathan Lane's rising fame after coups like "The Producers" (and even Lion King), but it hasn't come out yet... great performances and typical sharp Lane humor.
As connoisseur ratings go, this might not be his best film (Jules et Jim, Argent de Poche, Le Dernier Metro, Baisers Volés, Tirez sur le Pianiste, and Les 400 Coups are all at least as good and possibly better) but there is just so much life, tongue in cheek, unbridled pleasure in directing and in treating life as art, and the acting is so deceptively simple that I have to say this is probably my most favourite film by one of my most favourite directors.
After more than 60 years of changes in military leadership coming only after coups, the civilian-led government replaced the commander of the armed forces at the end of his term.
Indeed, some developing-country governments have faced civil unrest, even coups, over fuel taxes or subsidies.
Second, as the Pew poll suggests, today's weakening of democratic culture usually takes the form of nostalgia for strong leadership - a clear incitement to launching coups.
For almost seven decades, the US and its allies have repeatedly intervened (or supported internally-led coups) to oust governments that were not sufficiently under their thumb.
The remaining three, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania, Idriss Déby of Chad, and Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso, grabbed power in coups, some of them violent.
The difference between today and the periods that preceded other Pakistani coups is that an active civil society, an unconstrained electronic and print media, and an assertive judiciary may be able to keep the military in the barracks and force the politicians onto the right track.
Under its stewardship, one of Asia’s more promising economies has instead become a borderline failed state, enervated by 17 coups since World War II.
But failed coups can be just as consequential.
Just like successful coups, failed coups can have a major impact on countries’ foreign and security policies.
Its history has seen many coups, tens of thousands of people missing, a war with Great Britain, bouts of hyperinflation, a brutal economic crisis, default on foreign debt, and its most vulnerable citizens going hungry.
The 1990’s were marked by coups, countercoups, and civil wars, with two regions – Abkhazia and South Ossetia – essentially breaking away with Russian support.
Thailand’s public sector is historically plagued by frequent military coups, managed with rare exception by incompetent generals and civilians who rule with condescension towards the people who pay them to serve.
After decades of coups, dictatorships, torture, and disappearances, Latin America today, while not devoid of these plagues, has built a number of firewalls to forestall them.
On the other hand, he claims that his vast and powerful country cannot take in desperate refugees from Syria, because, he warns, Muslim asylum-seekers might stage “one of the great military coups of all time.”
India’s neighbors have proved this often enough, welcoming the overthrow of elected governments in popular coups.
Perhaps if sovereign rights had been better respected, with outside powers supporting consensus-building processes instead of coups d’état, political breakthroughs could have been achieved, opening the way for economy-boosting initiatives against relatively stable backgrounds.
Thus, the resources that should benefit developing countries instead become a curse that brings corruption, coups, and civil wars.
The current round of judicial activism is as much about rooting out corruption as previous rounds were about prosecuting the “deep state” and real coups – which is to say, not much at all.
More than 400 generals have been imprisoned for allegedly plotting coups, in many cases on the basis of patently fabricated evidence.
Gutierrez's past as a fomenter of coups has linked him in the minds of many to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, another former military officer who also authored a failed coup before becoming president.
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