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Later, the U.S. government didn’t stop a military coup in Brazil, helped dissidents assassinate the leader of the Dominican Republic and covertly supported the insurgent contras in Nicaragua, leading to the Iran-Contra scandal.

In recent weeks the military, or junta, has pushed back insurgents in several parts of Myanmar, aiming to maximise the number of places where it can hold a planned election, starting in December.

Much of French politics has instead come to fixate on obstructing the rise of the insurgent right, in the form of the party now known as National Rally.

The eastern DRC, a region bordering Rwanda with abundant natural resources, has suffered extreme violence for more than three decades, often at the hands of armed insurgent groups.

But his insurgent popularity has since waned, with recent polling putting him close to one percent of the vote.