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Definition: Junta |
JuntaNoun1. A clique that seeks power usually through intrigue. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "junta" was first used: 1623. (references) |
Etymology: Junta \Jun"ta\, noun; plural Juntas. [Spanish expression, from the Latin expression junctus joined, past participle of jungere to join. See Join, and compare to Junto.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power of the ruling class relies heavily on direct control of the military; it is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, i.e., a state ruled directly by the military. Like all dictatorships, a military dictatorship may be official or unofficial, and as a result may not actually qualify as stratocratic (some military dictators, like Manuel Noriega, are nominally subordinate to the civil government).The stereotypical military dictatorship is ruled by a junta (derived from a Spanish word which can be translated as "conference" or "board"), or a committee composed of the military's most senior leadership. Other military dictatorships are entirely in the hands of a single officer, most often the senior army commander. In either case, the chairman of the junta or the single commander may or may not formally and personally assume office as head of state.
Most military dictatorships are formed after a coup d'état. In the past, military juntas have justified their rule as a way of bringing political stability for the nation or rescuing it from the threat of dangerous ideologies. Military regimes tend to portray themselves as non-partisan, and a "neutral" party that can provide interim leadership in times of turmoil. In practice, however, military regimes can often be quite brutal, staying in power for long periods of time and committing many human rights abuses.
Since the 1990s, military dictatorships have become less common. Reasons for this include the fact that military dictatorships no longer have much international legitimacy, as well as the fact that many militaries having unsuccessfully ruled many nations are now inclined not to become involved in political disputes.
It should also be noted that "Junta" is an album by the extremely popular band Phish.
Nations currently under military rule:
Nations with legacies of military dictatorships:
- Central African Republic
- Guinea-Bissau
- Myanmar
See also: police state, dictator, The Generals
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Guatemala
- Pakistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Military dictatorship."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Preceded by:
Isabel PerónPresidents of Argentina Succeeded by:
Jorge Rafael VidelaSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Military Junta."
Synonyms: JuntaSynonyms: cabal (n), camarilla (n), faction (n), junto (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Council | Senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal; (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board. |
Government | Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Junta |
| English words defined with "junta": Juntas. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "junta": junto. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Junta" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (junta), German (junta), Hungarian (junta), Portuguese (applying joint bars, articulation, assembly, binding, cable binding, committee, connection, connector, directorate, fish-plating, fitting, gasket, glue line, join, joint, junta, knuckle, movable joint, packing, splice, union), Spanish (assembly, board, council, joint, junta, seal), Swedish (bee, junta). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Las AAA son las tres armas: Carta abierta de Rodolfo Walsh a la junta militar (1979) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Living quarters of Mexicans at La Junta, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chain stores on main street of La Junta, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sign on municipal building. La Junta, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Movilizarse por la liberacion de Puerto Rico junta de coordinacion revolucionaria ELN, ERP, MIR, MLN : septiembre 1975. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | One must scream out at all this ... : Miguel Enriquez, MIR leader ... killed by the Chilean military junta, October 5, 1974. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Down with the junta! long live free Chile. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chile si! junta no! : support the democratic rights of the Chilean people. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Expel the Chilean junta from the U.N. for violations of the United Nations declaration of human rights ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Burma | Rates of school attendance and educational attainment decreased during the year, largely due to increasing formal and informal school fees, as the junta diverted expenditures from health and education to the armed forces. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Guinea-Bissau | The Voice of the Military Junta no longer broadcasts. (references) |
Burma | These official media remained propaganda organs of the junta and normally did not report opposing views except to criticize them. (references) | |
Economic History | El Salvador | Carlos Humberto Romero (1977-79) and formed a revolutionary junta. (references) |
Greece | Senior Greek military officers then withdrew their support from the junta, which toppled. (references) | |
Bolivia | In 1964, a military junta overthrew President Paz Estenssoro at the outset of his third term. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burma | The judiciary is not independent of the military junta. (references) |
Burma | These courts then adjudicate cases under decrees promulgated by the junta that effectively have the force of law. (references) | |
Ecuador | Police in nearby Guaranda pressed charges against junta suspects, but the case appeared to be stalled at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sierra Leone | The AFRC then invited the RUF to join the junta. (references) |
Burma | Since it seized power in 1988, the junta has shown no inclination to cede its hold on power. (references) | |
Burma | Economic growth has slowed since the mid-1990's, as the junta has retreated from economic liberalization. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burma | Since 1988 a military junta has held all state power. (references) |
Burma | The military junta continued its systematic use of coercion and intimidation to deny citizens the right to change their government. (references) | |
Burma | Rather than accept the will of citizenry as expressed in the 1990 election, the junta convened a national convention in 1993 to draw up principles for a new constitution. (references) | |
Trade | Burma | Over the past few years the military junta has shut down Burma's borders on several occasions. (references) |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | During 2000, there were several violent events including a two-day military mutiny over pay issues; a brutally suppressed demonstration staged by the opposition party; an assassination attempt against the military junta leader; a popular uprising following the October elections that ousted the military junta leader and then turned into armed conflict between ethnic groups; and a political demonstration that turned violent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Burma | The 1926 Trade Unions Act, which remained in effect, permits workers to form of trade unions only with the prior consent of the Government; however, no free trade unions exist in the country, and the junta has dissolved even the government-controlled union that existed before 1988. By law workers generally are prohibited from striking, although a small number of workers are provided the right to strike. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Margaret Thatcher | Look, this was a remarkable thing. A prime minister never expects to send people into battle. I was agonized over it. But you couldn't leave our people captive of a military junta of the Argentine. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In El Salvador, we have supported the efforts of the Junta to change the fundamental basis of an inequitable system and to give a stake in a new nation to those millions of people, who for so long, lived without hope or dignity. |
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| "Junta" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Junta" is used about 185 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 185 | 22,646 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "junta": la junta. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "junta"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | juntë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مجلس سياسي, مجلس عسكري, لجنة سياسية, عصبة عسكرية, طغمة (pack, party, troop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хунта (junto), испански държавен съвет, италиански държавен съвет. (various references) | |
Czech | junta, chunta. (various references) | |
Farsi | حزب (Party, Sect), انجمن سری , دسته بندی (Division). (various references) | |
Finnish | juntta (junto, pile-driver, ram). (various references) | |
French | junte (junto). (various references) | |
German | junta. (various references) | |
Greek | ισπανική βουλή, χούντα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כת צבאית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | junta, katonai klikk. (various references) | |
Italian | giunta (addition, encore), fazione politica. (various references) | |
Manx | hoontey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | untajay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | junta (committee, directorate, join, joint, knuckle, union), itália ou espanha, grupo de conjurados (junto), grupo (bevy, brood, bunch, cluster, collection, committee, crew, crowd, denomination, flock, gang, group, heap, herd, junto, plump, series, team, tribe, troop, troupe), facção política (junto), agrupamento de pessoas (afflux, junto, reunion). (various references) | |
Romanian | juntã. (various references) | |
Russian | хунта, клика (clique, faction, junto, ring), политическая фракция. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | savet (admonishment, admonition, advice, council, monition, pointer, rede, steer, tip off), hunta, frakcija u stranci (junto). (various references) | |
Spanish | junta (assembly, board, council, joint, seal). (various references) | |
Swedish | junta (bee). (various references) | |
Turkish | yönetime el koyan askeri birlik, siyasi grup (junto), cunta. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хунта (junto), кліка (clan, clique, combination, junto, push). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hội đ"ng tư vấn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | juncta. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | junta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "junta": juntas. (additional references) | |
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"Junta" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ajanta, bunta, hunta, iuncta, Jacta, Jafta, janja, janta, jenat, Jenga, jent, Jewontin, Jinshan, jint, Jnto, jont, Jonti, jonty, jotnian, jun, juna, junata, juncal, junct, Jundu, junea, junette, Juniac, Junot, junt, junty, Junya, juta, jutan, juti, juto, juxta, Kunta, nunatak. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "junta" (pronounced huh"ntu) |
| 3 | -n t u | into, magenta, Manta, pinta, placenta, Quinta. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: jaunt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-j-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: aunt, tuna. | |
-2 letters: ant, jun, jut, nut, taj, tan, tau, tun, uta. | |
-3 letters: an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-j-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: jaunts, jaunty, juntas, jurant. | |
+2 letters: adjunct, jaunted, jurants, muntjac, muntjak. | |
+3 letters: adjuncts, adjutant, adjuvant, jauntier, jauntily, jaunting, jubilant, muntjacs, muntjaks. | |
+4 letters: adjunctly, adjusting, adjutancy, adjutants, adjuvants, conjugant, conjugate, jauntiest, junctural, juniorate, subjacent. | |
+5 letters: abjuration, adjunction, adjunctive, adjuration, adjustment, conjugants, conjugated, conjugates, jaculating, jauntiness, journalist, jubilantly, jubilating, jubilation, judgmental, juggernaut, jugulating, junctional, juniorates, rejuvenate, unadjusted. | |
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