And when the electoral council delivered preliminary results that favoured the government candidate over Mr Martelly, a charismatic pop star with then-unknown ideological leanings, protesters shut down the country for several days.
While the march did not turn out a high percentage of new protesters or ideological moderates, a third of the participants reported being a member of a group that was involved in organizing the event.
Nevertheless, in a bizarre form of ideological dissonance, these same protesters were hostile towards local media and saw the Anglo-American press as their champions, with many calling on Washington and the west to take decisive action against the coup, and to reinstate Morsi.
Meanwhile, protesters of all ideological stripes spilled into Berkeley.
There have also been plenty of assaults on individual journalists, said Sterne, often involving protesters of various ideological bents shoving or punching reporters, or stealing cameras.
There have also been plenty of assaults on individual journalists, said Sterne, often involving protesters of various ideological bents shoving or punching reporters, or stealing cameras.
"There's a philosophical power struggle going on in black America between the old-school protesters and the post-ideological pragmatists," the Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, a senior policy advisor to the Church of God in Christ, told the Washington Post last year.
Anxious not to offend its neighbour, India deployed over 20,000 troops to protect the torch from possible Tibetan protesters.Moreover, as if to confirm his ideological kinship with Mr Abe, Mr Modi has announced that he will visit him in Tokyo on his first important foreign trip in office.
Ideological backflips aside, what's most disturbing is the protesters' historical illiteracy.
I won't flatter the student protesters by asserting they are aware of their ideological antecedents.
