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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo survived another combined coup attempt and People Power uprising Nov. 29 when government forces rearrested several military officers already facing charges for plotting a 2003 coup attempt. The officers had walked out of their courtroom, marched with supporters — including Arroyo’s former Vice President Guingona Teofisto — to the Peninsula Hotel in Makati City, and occupied at least one floor of the hotel for several hours, calling for a general military and civil uprising.

Philippine politics is full of such attempts, and Arroyo’s presidency has been little different in that regard. Despite Arroyo herself rising to power in a People Power movement against former President Joseph Estrada (whom she recently pardoned), she has not been immune to calls for her own ouster. But the Nov. 29 move, while full of drama and confusion, failed for several reasons.

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