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A military junta (/ ˈ h ʊ n t ə, ˈ dʒ ʌ n t ə / ⓘ) is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term junta means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808. [1]
A military dictatorship, or a military regime, is a type of dictatorship in which power is held by one or more military officers.Military dictatorships are led by either a single military dictator, known as a strongman, or by a council of military officers known as a military junta.
Military dictatorship, an authoritarian government controlled by a military and its political designees, called a military junta when done extralegally; Military junta, a government led by a committee of military leaders; Stratocracy, a government traditionally or constitutionally run by a military; Military democracy, a war-based society that ...
Junta (/ ˈ h ʊ n t ə / ⓘ or / ˈ dʒ ʌ n t ə /) is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian (giunta) term for a civil deliberative or administrative council. In English, the term, even when used alone, generally refers to a " military junta ", the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military .
The United States will hold the junta that took power in Niger accountable for the safety of democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum, his family, and detained members of the government, U ...
The military coup in a nation that was once a bastion of stability was the third of its kind in the region in the last 18 months, creating upheaval in some of the countries hardest hit by Islamic ...
The West African country's ruling military junta, which seized power in a 2022 coup, is accused of suppressing dissent by kidnapping and conscripting critics, and urging citizens to report ...
Signatures of members of the Government Junta, 1973. On 11 September 1973, the day of the coup, the military officers issued an Act of Constitution.The act established a junta government that immediately suspended the constitution, suspended Congress, imposed strict censorship and curfew, proscribed the leftist parties that had constituted Salvador Allende's Popular Unity coalition, and halted ...