The State Department on Thursday stopped short of formally calling Mr.Zelaya's ouster a military coup d'etat, which carries with it harsher aid penalties mandated by Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Murders, conspiracies, coup d'etat, these are the kinds of political phenomena he is interested.

谋杀，谋叛，政变，这些是前者,感兴趣的政治现象。

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"The Brazilian government is gravely concerned that the same people who perpetrated the coup d'etat might threaten the inviolability of the embassy to forcibly arrest President Zelaya,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

"Their plan is a coup d'etat, " he added, while calling his own supporters into the streets.

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Think of a coup d'etat and images of a far-flung banana republic likely come to mind.

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President Bill Clinton, who had restored the Aristide presidency after a coup d'etat, tolerated the abuses.

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