Junta (Peninsular War)

A junta [ span ' Xunta, port. ' ʒũta ] (" combine, join, bring together " from the Latin iungere, ) is in Spanish and Portuguese -speaking countries usually a council, in the strict sense of the word a people or a government committee. In Spain, it will support the elected government of regions called (example: Junta de Andalucía ). In Portugal, the municipal council is called Junta de Freguesia. Does that make the military -to-do part of a State Government, is this part called military junta. You gain by Liberty or independence movements or military coups power.

The principle of the junta goes back to the Junta Suprema Central, which was formed in 1808 in Spain to lead the war of liberation against Napoleon, while King Ferdinand VII was imprisoned in France. Other examples of a junta, the Greek military dictatorship in the period 1967-1974 and the government of Chile in the period from 1973 to 1989 Augusto Pinochet, the Argentine government in the so-called "Process of National Reorganization" 1976-1983 or - at least in the current parlance - the military dictatorship in Myanmar ( formerly Burma or Burma).

Junta governments were often made by right-wing dictatorships, since ideologically different embossed groups such as Conservative, Liberal and National cooperated to effectively act together against leftists.

Junta was called, inter alia:

• Junta Provisional Gubernativa, Spain 1820
• Junta Nacional de Salvação Portugal (1974-1976)
• Junta Syntagmatarchon, Greece (1967-1974)
• Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, El Salvador (1979-1982)
• Junta de Exrectores University of Mexico ( UNAM ), 1944