CIA-organized coup against the government of Suriname, to avoid it moving closer to the dreaded "Cuban orbit": "Two months earlier, in October, the Bouterse regime had threatened to expel two US diplomats it accused of encouraging the country’s conservative trade unions and of playing a key role in organizing anti-government demonstrations and strikes aimed at bringing the government down.4 Then, on 8 December, Suriname announced that a coup attempt had been made against the government."