That failure has turned a law enforcement coup into a diplomatic fiasco, with the Administration now trying to repair the damage to drug enforcement efforts.
The Opec chief warned Mr Chavez that the US would prod a long-simmering coup into action to break any embargo threat.
Mr. Amselem said it was not possible to translate Latin America's position on the coup into policy, noting that most of its countries had used elections to establish democratic order after coups.
The next day, after a police officer was shot and wounded trying to halt the distribution of weapons to the Committee of Safety's militia, the committee decided to put its coup into action.
Mr. Kraft's decision turned what had seemed a stunning coup into an embarrassing and expensive fiasco for Connecticut officials, most critically Gov. John G. Rowland, who had brokered the deal that would have saddled taxpayers with the entire cost of the $375 million stadium.
Their most audacious move of all though has been to turn the clearly unattainable economic outcomes (hardly a dent in the deficit, spiralling national debt, flatlining productivity etc) of this ideological coup into unassailable truths; the hard choices Michael speaks of as gospel are nothing of the sort, they've been presented to us as such.
In Nasser's eyes, this law gave the RCC its own identity and transformed the coup into a revolution.
Smith ordered the American ambassador in Guatemala to put a CIA plan for a Guatemalan coup into effect, which was accomplished by the following year.
And that's even without suspecting that Erdogan manipulated the coup into being in order to greatly accelerate a crackdown on internal opposition.
What the military does not seem to understand is that somewhere along the way, the red shirts were transformed from a movement focusing on Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister overthrown in the 2006 coup, into one fighting for political enfranchisement.
