On April 1, 1964, a military-led coup deposed the elected government of João Goulart.

One day - maybe soon, maybe later, he said - he aspires to become the king of Iraq, taking a throne that has been vacant, or indeed nonexistent, since 1958 when his Hashemite forebears were shot to death in a military-led coup.

The film traces the life of João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil, who was deposed by a military-led coup on March 31, 1964 after he proposed a broad program of reforms in areas such as land, education and elections.

In 1999, the Pakistan Army General Pervez Musharraf assumed power in a military-led bloodless coup.

A military-led coup d'état two weeks after the election prevented Guevara from assuming power and instead installed a three-man junta headed by Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt.

On the night of March 31, 1964, a military-led coup overthrew Goulart.

In October 1991, after a bloody, military-led coup that overthrew Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, soldiers hunted down many Aristide supporters.

After the Marcoses fled to Hawaii after a military-led coup in 1986, the new Government under Mrs. Aquino banned their return for security reasons and had asked the United States to prevent their departure.

Support from Honduras, observed CNN, "came a little over a year after a military-led coup toppled the democratically elected president there."

On April 1, 1964 a year before Rede Globo was opened, a military-led coup deposed the elected government of President João Goulart.