| March 15, 2004 | -
China amended its constitution to say that "the state respects and preserves human rights." Another amendment declared that "private property obtained legally shall not be violated."
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Boston Globe, Cybercast News
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| March 1, 2004 | - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled Haiti as a rebel army of thugs and former death-squad members approached Port-au-Prince, which was being terrorized by thugs loyal to the president; President Bush sent in the Marines to prepare for a multinational peacekeeping force.
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Reuters
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| September 5, 2003 | - There were rumors of a coup plot in the Philippines.
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New York Times
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| December 25, 2001 | - There was a coup attempt in Haiti, and Argentina's president resigned.
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| December 18, 2001 | - Millions of workers and businesses in Venezuela held a general strike and housewives banged on pans to protest President Hugo Chávez's “Bolivarian” revolution. “I will never hold a dialogue,” Chávez declared. “The revolution is invincible, and no one is going to stop it because it has infinite power.”
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| December 4, 2001 | - Maoist rebels attacked a Coca-Cola plant near Katmandu.
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| November 13, 2001 | -
Russians celebrated the eighty-fourth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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| June 5, 2001 | - President Ange-Félix Patasse of the Central African Republic put down a coup attempt.
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| February 27, 2001 | - American newspapers and other content providers were still ignoring growing evidence, reported in the British press, of George W. Bush's electoral coup, including new evidence that thousands of black Floridians were improperly removed from the list of approved voters.
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| January 16, 2001 | - There was a coup attempt in the Ivory Coast.
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| August 1, 2000 | - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela was reelected in what he called a “mega-election”; Chavez vowed to complete his peaceful social revolution against Venezuela's “rancid oligarchy” by “liquidating our adversaries from the field of battle.” Classes resumed in Myanmar, almost four years after SLORC, the country's military junta, banned higher education.
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