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"junta" is an acceptable word in written English
It is a Spanish word that can be used to refer to a government or other type of ruling body, usually of a military or authoritarian nature. Example: After a tense three-way race, a new junta was sworn into office.
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junta
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A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; especially, the grand council of state in Spain.
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Back within the well-shuttered Carrera and gathering in its imposing reception area sheathed in black glass, Pinochet's many moneyed supporters toasted him with champagne, and his three fellow members of the junta from the navy, air force and gendarmerie.
In 1976, her brother, Orlando Yorio, along with another Jesuit priest, Francisco Jalics, were seized by navy troops in the slums of Buenos Aires and held and tortured for five months at the ESMA camp, a navy base in the capital where 5,000 people were murdered by the military junta.
These are people who were underground activists in a military dictatorship; some served jail time, and in 1973 many were among the students who defied tanks and destroyed a junta.
The Russians initially wanted to ask about attitude towards the "fascist junta in Ukraine", while the Poles sought opinions on "pro-European changes in Ukraine".
In a document, the separatists also gave David Cameron a sharp warning, saying: "PS British prime minister David Cameron is on a provisional list (without the sanctions being enforced in practice) and is advised to think carefully about his attitude to the Kiev junta, especially given the traditional good relations between Britain and the Donbas region".
The Roman Catholic church has been widely criticised for failing to stand up to the junta that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
In 1982 the military junta under Ne Win stripped them of their citizenship.
When a team from the BBC Panorama programme visited Chile in November 1973, staff at the British embassy secured them "maximum co-operation from the junta".
But the vast majority of Egyptians back Sisi despite the many failures of the military junta (known as Scaf) that governed Egypt following Mubarak's exit in 2011, and despite activists' warnings that a Sisi presidency would be likely bring a revival of Mubarak-era authoritarianism.
Thatcher's "enemy within" remarks, briefed from a private meeting of Tory MPs in July and likening militant miners to the defeated Argentinian junta of 1982, had caused deep and lasting offence which saw its latest manifestation in last month's bitter referendum campaign in Scotland.
Thus had started 17 years of Pinochet's dictatorship – he soon reduced his fellow members of the junta to a cipher – held together by terrorism.
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