Mr Chavez survived a short-lived coup in April 2002 and a two-month strike that badly damaged the economy later that year.
Mr Miliband's intellectual ability is widely admired but his presentational skills were questioned when he allowed himself to be photographed - at the height of the speculation over a potential coup - grinning and holding a banana.
U.N. and U.S. officials agree that the former Afghan king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, 87, -- who has been living in Italy since a 1973 coup -- should play a role in the next government, even if it is a symbolic one.
Given the history of American-Iranian relations, (which include a CIA-sponsored coup in 1953), it would not be productive to be seen to be meddling in an Iranian election, he said.
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Outside Wheeling Park's White Palace Ballroom in Wheeling, West Virginia, Craig Bouchard, president of the little-known, closely held Esmark of Chicago, was frantically calling large investors, pulling off a long-shot coup.
Adm Na Tchuto - whose assets were frozen by Washington in 2010 - was arrested after a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau in December 2011, but released in June.
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As a result of a coup by pro-fascist elements of the military, Romania entered World War II on the Nazi side in 1941.
These vehicles have been a fund-raising coup, drawing big donations on top of annual dues.
In a coup-prone country in western Africa a few years ago, I heard this story over dinner.
This is one season where Google and Android pair up to beat the iPhone in a cross-disciplinary coup.
But he managed to pull off a major coup - even if there were only 167 votes between him and his Labour rival.
In a public-relations coup, Blue Shield of California announced that it would cap its annual profits at 2%, rebating anything left over to its customers.
It's shorthand for the ability of our country to convert a loss into a win, to defy global expectations by pulling off a last-minute coup.
Although sincere political reconciliation seems impossible, Mr Arias and his allies among the generals are not keen on a right-wing coup and are prepared to support the government in exchange for certain concessions, particularly, if ironically, the de-politicisation of the army.
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Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.
Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest country, was just weeks away from holding a presidential run-off vote when a coup took place last month.
In a parallel development, the PML-N party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - ousted by Gen Musharraf when he took power in a coup in 1999 - has challenged Mr Musharraf's eligibility to contest elections.
Little, Brown also acquired audiobook rights, and e-book rights, a coup in itself given the growth of the digital-book market.
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It also happens that Tonga's chief justice, Michael Scott, a former Fiji high-court judge and himself a refugee from Fiji's coup, is an arch-opponent of Fiji's chief justice, Anthony Gates, controversially appointed in the wake of the Bainimarama takeover.
Second, in a sense the pre-coup Soviet Union already had defaulted on its past debt obligations by simply not paying for its day-to-day bills with Western suppliers.
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In his speech on Friday, Mr Maduro promised a "revolution within the revolution" and compared Mr Capriles to the man installed as president of Venezuela during a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, Pedro Carmona.
When Ecowas was formed in 1975, the majority of its members states had military heads of state - and a new coup leader was therefore warmly welcomed at meetings, without anybody batting an eyelid.
Ordinary Nigerians, fed up with being robbed and bullied by their leaders, would probably like to see harsh punishments for the old regime, but Mr Obasanjo, a former political prisoner himself (he served three years of a 15-year sentence for allegedly plotting a coup against Abacha before the tyrant's death set him free), is inclined to be gentle.
Mr Sharif - who was toppled in a military coup in 1999 and spent years in exile - held talks on Sunday on forming a government.
In 1966, President David Dacko of the Central African Republic was overthrown in a coup by Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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He said economic reform would be his top priority, but news of a coup in nuclear-armed Pakistan brought worries of further conflict along the border in Kashmir.
Mr Grillo denounced Mr Napolitano's re-appointment as a "coup d'etat".
It backed a coup by Greek-Cypriot soldiers sympathetic to enosis.
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