The opposition has tried to dislodge Mr. Chávez, a populist who won office in 1998, through a short-lived coup in 2002 and four big national strikes.

The 1971 Sudanese coup d'état was a short-lived communist-backed coup, led by Major Hashem al Atta, against the government of President Gaafar Nimeiry.

He finally joined the short-lived coup before it collapsed.

They came in response to a short-lived coup by Greek Cypriots that threatened to make Cyprus part of Greece and seemed to endanger Turkish Cypriots.

Mr Chavez accused the US of being behind a short-lived coup that saw him removed from office for a couple of days in 2002.

A group he headed arrived in Moscow on Sunday, Aug. 18, the day before the short-lived coup was disclosed.

In July 1971, Garang and several others were executed after being convicted as conspirators in the short-lived coup that toppled the regime of President Gaafar Nimeiry.

In July 1974 the junta came to ruin by organizing a short-lived coup against Archbishop Makarios, the leader of Cyprus.

Cyprus, an independent country, has been divided into ethnic Greek and Turkish zones since Turkey invaded the island in 1974 after a short-lived coup by backers of a union with Greece.

The short-lived coup in August 1991 that seemed to augur the return of Communism in the former Soviet Union briefly, but abruptly, ended a skein of ads celebrating glasnost.