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peppertree

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7. Latin America is known for its coups.

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 10:34 PM

Dec 2021

What's less widely known, is that, often, each country's first coup was endorsed by that country's (very conservative) supreme court.

The ones that followed, in fact, often used that first endorsement as precedent.

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