military juntas
Coup-installed governments
Military juntas are governments controlled by military officers who have seized power, typically through a coup d'état.
The term comes from Spanish, where junta means a council or committee.
Juntas often suspend constitutions, dissolve legislatures, and rule by decree: The military junta imposed martial law and banned political parties.
The singular is junta; military juntas specifies the armed forces origin.
- generalissimoAbsolute military commander
- army generalsHighest-ranking military officers
- coup d'étatViolent government seizure
- palace coupOverthrow by regime insiders
- Francoist SpainSpanish dictatorship, 1939-1975
martial law · dictatorship · armed forces · Dirty War · death squads · disappeared persons · authoritarianism · secret police · tanks · censorship · autocracy · human rights abuses · night raids · strongman · personalism · economic sanctions · warlordism · media control
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- dictatorshipsdictatorship, tyranny, autocracy, totalitarianism, despotism
- EcuadorQuito, Guayaquil, Galapagos, Andes, Amazon region
- Sahel CrisisBoko Haram, Wagner Group, counterterrorism, jihadism, humanitarian crisis
- West African Historycolonial era, colonial rule, independence movement, French colonialism, French colonization
- ArgentinaBuenos Aires, tango, Messi, Patagonia, mate
military juntasdemocracies
Governments elected by people
representative democracies · liberal democracies · representative governments · popular sovereignty · self-governance
military juntasconstitutional government
Regime bound by charter
rule of law · constitutional order · established order · legitimate authority