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Definition of junta
1 : a council or committee for political or governmental purposes; especially : a group of persons controlling a government especially after a revolutionary seizure of power a military junta
2 : junto
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The junta has been criticized for its frequent usage of Article 44, which was supposed to be for situations endangering public order.
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Such abuses were often cited as part of the justification for international sanctions on the country’s former ruling junta.
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Noriega found a mentor in General Omar Torrijos, who emerged as the leader of a military junta after Panama’s President Arnulfo Arias was ousted in a 1968 coup, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Mr. Mitsotakis, with other politicians, was immediately arrested and later lived in exile in Paris until shortly before the junta collapsed in 1974.
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The airport project is part of junta leader Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha’s goal of boosting the economy, whose expansion has lagged behind neighbors since the military seized power three years ago.
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The junta, called the National Council for Peace and Order, has ruled Thailand for the last three years, and has seen brief moments of unrest, including a wave of bombings in August 2016 that killed three people and injured 26.
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The attack coincides with the third anniversary of Thailand's most recent coup d'etat, which put the current military junta in power.
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In the 1980s, the US strongly supported Napoleon Jose Duarte, the head of a military junta in El Salvador.
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Origin and Etymology of junta
Spanish, from feminine of junto joined, from Latin junctus, past participle of jungere to join — more at yoke
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playDefinition of junta for English Language Learners
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: a military group controlling a government after taking control of it by force
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