autogolpe

Borrowed from Spanish autogolpe.

autogolpe (plural autogolpes)

1. An autocoup, especially one in a Spanish-speaking country.
   • 1992 April 7, “Into the Fire in Peru”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The U.S. rightly treats this “autogolpe” like an open military coup, suspending all but humanitarian assistance.

   • 2020 December 7, Zeynep Tufekci, “‘This Must Be Your First’”, in The Atlantic‎^[2]:

     Marx was mocking Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who had just seized power in a coup (or, in the interest of technical precision, an autogolpe), declaring himself emperor.

   • 2020 December 11, Jamelle Bouie, “The ‘Trump Won’ Farce Isn’t Funny Anymore”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Unfortunately for Trump, and fortunately for the country, he has not been able to bend reality to his desires. Key election officials and federal judges have refused his call to throw out votes, create chaos and clear a path for the autogolpe he hopes to accomplish.

From auto- +‎ golpe.

• IPA^(key): /autoˈɡolpe/ [au̯.t̪oˈɣ̞ol.pe]
• Rhymes: -olpe
• Syllabification: au‧to‧gol‧pe

autogolpe m (plural autogolpes)

1. autogolpe, autocoup, self-coup
   • 2022 December 8, Juan Diego Quesada, Inés Santaeulalia, “Los 180 minutos que hicieron temblar Perú”, in El País‎^[4], retrieved 8 December 2022:

     Esa tranquilidad era ficticia. Tres horas antes, Castillo había anunciado un autogolpe de Estado, como hizo en su día Alberto Fujimori.

     That calm was ficticious. Three hours before, Castillo had announced a self-coup d'état, like Alberto Fujimori did back in the day.

• → English: autogolpe

• “autogolpe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• autogolpe de Estado on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es