... to take matters into his own hands, and considered overthrowing Negrín and establish contact with the Nationalists in order to end the war. The most important of Casado's allies upon whom the success of the coup would depend were the Madrid organizations of the CNT, FAI, and Cipriano Mera's Fourth Army...

... Cartagena Thomas Hugh British historian CNT Confederación Nacional del Trabajo Anarchist labor federation Hernández Jesús politburo member education and fine arts minister expelled from party after war Flight Juan Negrín Segismundo Casado PCE Communists resistance policy Casado's conspiracy coup...

...Chapter eight charts the build-up to the right-wing military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973. It examines the progressive division of the Left amid conspiracies against the government, focusing in, as Beatriz did, on the impending prospect of a coup and the strategies Allende’s team employed...

... a program of social, economic, and political reforms. The July Uprising led the British to conclude that the only way to replace Mosaddeq was through a military coup. In contrast, the United States concluded that there was no acceptable alternative to Mosaddeq and that the best option was to find a way...

... overthrew the National Front government on 19 August 1953 (28 Mordad, according to the Iranian calendar) in a violent coup d’état combining indigenous forces with foreign actors. US policymakers had long believed that without the substantial oil revenues...

...The second chapter examines the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s: from peasant mobilization in Pernambuco’s cane region, to a right-wing military coup its leaders called a revolution, to the sweeping agricultural changes associated with the Green Revolution. As in other parts of the world, Brazilian...

...' expectations, Indigenous beneficiaries were not passive recipients but actively engaged with development interventions and, in the process, redefined racialized ideas about Indigeneity. Sarah Foss illustrates how this process transpired in Cold War Guatemala, spanning democratic revolution, military coups...

..., Frei Chico was interested in politics due to his father’s enthusiasm for Getúlio Vargas and he embraced a challenging apprenticeship in the class struggle as a union military that put him in contact with Communists. When the military seized power in a coup after March 31, 1964, they ousted reformist...

... wanted blood: Two days after the election, on November 10, 1898, white men led by Alfred Waddell staged the only successful coup on American soil in history. They killed at least 22 people that day, burned Manly’s newspaper to the ground, and forced Black people of Wilmington to flee along the Cape Fear...

...This chapter presents the story of the disastrous earthquake of 7 May 1842 in Haiti and the chain of events that followed. The major result of these events was the overthrow of Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer after more than two decades of rule—the first president to be overturned by a coup...

... of white labor, management, and government, possibly at about the time of the notorious North Carolina white supremacy campaign that culminated in the 1898 Wilmington coup and racial massacre. Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO Food Tobacco and Agricultural Workers FTA McLean Charles Memphis Tenn...

...The epilogue briefly pushes the book’s discussion forward in time, into 1974, when countercultural youths faced very different conditions put upon them by a military regime whose leaders were familiar with anticounterculture discourses, especially those of the Allende years. Upon the military coup...

... civilian rule, including the reasons why the coup attempts failed. The chapter also illuminates the dysfunctional aspects of Venezuela's political system, such as political decline, economic austerity, and breakdown of consensual politics. Chávez Frias Hugo 4F coup attempt 4F coup attempt Ochoa Antich...

...This chapter focuses on the relationship between Isabel and Orlando Letelier before the military coup by Pinochet on September 11, 1973. They met as stdents, fell in love and into politics, and lived in Washington for a decade when Orlando was ambassador. They also raised four boys who were bi...

...This chapter focuses on the new techniques that Paulo Freire had developed for training adults to read and write. The military coup of 1964, however, frustrated his hopes of employing them to transform his native land. The experience of exile that resulted from the coup, however, opened up new...

...This chapter argues that achieving unity and guaranteeing the success of a coup in Chile still remained a big “if” in mid-1973. In the months between May and September 1973, U.S. officials monitoring plotting in the country had been relatively unimpressed with the progress toward this goal...

.... The chapter then looks at the student-led revolution that paved the way for the country's first democratic government in April 1960, followed by a virtually bloodless military coup d'état led by Park Chung Hee that seized power in May 1961. It also considers the United States' support for the military junta...

...This chapter focuses on the failed democratization attempt in 1945–1948. Because civilian politicians made poor decisions regarding civil-military relations in this period, the armed forces staged a coup and were able to depose President Rómulo Gallegos with little resistance. The chapter examines...