However, owing to inflation, corruption, and Perón's conflicts with the formerly dominant landowning class and the Catholic church, the military eventually turned against him, and he was ousted in a coup in 1955.
The multimillionaire businessman and former prime minister, ousted in a coup in 2006 and a fugitive from justice since 2008, had confidently predicted that he would be back home by the time of last year's royal birthday.
Mali endured a wretched year in 2012, the northern half seized by a motley alliance of Islamists and Tuareg rebels, the president ousted in a coup and the country almost breaking in half before a French-backed government offensive turned the situation around.
Paul Manafort, the campaign chair formerly worked as an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, former Ukrainian president and a Vladimir Putin ally ousted in a revolution two years who is now living in exile in Russia.
Representative Earl F. Hilliard, an Alabama Democrat who has also supported Arab and Muslim concerns, was ousted in a primary vote in June by Artur Davis, a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups.
The interim chief executive of the El Paso Corporation declared victory today in a dispute with a large part of the company's investors, effectively preventing the company's highest-ranking managers and board from being ousted in a rare coup attempt by shareholders.
Hayward's predecessor at BP, ousted in a sex-and-blackmail scandal in 2007, had placed cost-cutting (and ever more obscene profits) over safety, culminating in the BP Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 and injured 170 in 2005.
Under the emergency decree, the government had shut down the Red Shirts' television channel as well as Internet sites sympathetic to the protesters and to Mr. Thaksin, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and is now abroad, evading a jail term on a corruption conviction.
Apple cofounder Stephen Wozniak left in February 1985 to become a teacher, and Apple cofounder Steven Jobs was ousted in a power struggle in September 1985.
First, Calisto Tanzi, Parmalat's founder and boss (pictured above) was ousted in a brutal show of strength by the company's main banks.
