2023-07-06 11:20:23
A riot is a riot for political purposes, so is not a direct equivalent of coup.
In the media it is not uncommon to find phrases in which riot for the mere action of replacing one government by another with violent means: “The riot came after a military mutiny” or “The attempted riot was planned by the military and people outside the military establishment.”
According to the academic dictionary, a riot is a ‘riot meeting and violent to get some purpose, usually political‘, which implies the presence of a crowd that causes public disorder.
On the other hand, a coup is a ‘violent and fast actingusually by military or rebel forces, whereby a particular group seizes or attempts to seize the springs of the government of a State, displacing the existing authorities‘. It does not have to be accompanied by riots and it can be an action carried out by a small group of people.
Although hit of State They are very often associated with riotsare actions that, in their purpose and in their development, they tend to be differentso it is not advisable to identify them, as corroborated by the Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Legal Spanish. In particular, when in a piece of news you want refer more precisely to the fact that a government was overthrownregardless of the means used, what is appropriate is coup.
So, in the first example, riot it would apply to the mutiny prior to the coup, not the coup itself, while the second belongs to a news item in which a coup d’état was only projected, without actually beginning its execution. Therefore, the appropriate would have been “The coup d’état came after a military mutiny” and “The attempted coup d’état was planned by the military and people outside the military establishment.”
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