Concept in Definition ABC

The term coup allows us to refer in our language to those people or groups that support or contribute directly to a coup, that is, the coup is the one who perpetrates a coup, but also the one who collaborates in this event taking place in effect.

Overthrow the government in power through the use of violence

The coups d'état and of course the coup leaders who carry them out have the mission of overthrowing the government in office, meanwhile, to achieve the objective of unseating the governing authorities, it is common for these coup groups to use the violence, fact of course includes use of firearms and even explosives that are intended to intimidate.

Traditionally, coups have been carried out by military forces but also by groups of rebels who do not agree with the government in office and then decide to strike a blow to overthrow them.

The imposition, violence and the absence of freedom are the characteristic elements of coups.

This close relationship with the violence that they have had since their inception makes it inevitable that the governments that are installed in this way, after a coup d'état, governments of facto or military dictatorships as they are popularly designated, deploy an exacerbated use of violence against the people who do not accept them and of course against the leadership

politics that rejects and denounces them.

Contempt for the value of the law

In the attitude coup there is no I respect for the value of the law and that is why it is decided to act arbitrarily against what the Constitution established in terms of mandates.

Unfortunately, due to the consequences that we have already pointed out, the coups d'état and the coup leaders have been a dire reality of many nations and that cost blood, sweat and many tears to recover from the action coup plotter.

For example, Argentina, in 1976, suffered one of the most tremendous coups in its history due to the terrorism of state that would install and that would leave like balance some three thousand disappeared people. This coup led by the military overthrew the incumbent president, María Isabel Martínez de Perón, and immediately developed a relentless persecution against those who criticized the regime, which included illegal detentions, torture and of course murders.

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