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I would characterize the 1973 overthrow of Chile's Salvador Allende by GENERAL Augosto Pinochet as an example of a "military takeover of a democracy in the western world."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende
Chile was a western democracy in 1973. People might debate as to whether or not it was "advanced."
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