autogolpe

American  

[aw-toh-gawl-pey] / ˌɔ toʊˈgɔl peɪ /

noun

Spanish.

1. self-coup.

   One of the justifications he made for his autogolpe in 1992 was his indictment of the corruption within the judiciary.

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Etymology

Origin of autogolpe

First recorded in 1970–75; from Spanish auto- auto- ¹ ( def. ) + golpe “a hit” (from Latin colaphus, from Greek kólaphos ); coup ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

This is an embarrassment to the honorable tradition of autogolpe.

From Slate

They compared it to the 1992 "autogolpe", the Spanish word meaning "self-coup", which is used to describe the actions of President Alberto Fujimori, who successfully dissolved Congress and the judiciary with the backing of the military.

From BBC

Chin said the data are less reliable for autogolpes — which do not have an agreed-upon academic definition — but he estimated a separate 148 autogolpe attempts since 1946, of which 110 took place in autocracies and 38 in democracies.

From Washington Post

Because Trump is attempting to remain in power, rather than remove someone else from it his efforts come closer to what scholars call an attempt at a “self-coup” — or, using the Spanish term, an autogolpe — in which a head of state attempts to remain in power past his or term in office.

From Washington Post