inventona

English translation: imaginary/forged/staged coup

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Portuguese term or phrase:	inventona
English translation:	imaginary/forged/staged coup
Entered by:	Oliver Simões

14:31 Dec 4, 2022

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang

Portuguese term or phrase: inventona

O MLSTP/PSD, na oposição são-tomense, pediu a exoneração do vice-chefe do Estado-Maior e do inspetor-geral das Forças Armadas, "por conivência" com os atos praticados contra os detidos após o ataque a quartel do exército.

"Solicitamos a exoneração e destituição imediata do vice-chefe de Estado-Maior, que emerge claramente como peça fundamental de toda essa ***inventona***, do comandante do Exército e do inspetor-geral das FASTP, por conivência com os atos praticados no quartel,

Woulf 'fabrication' be close to the idea

Douglas Bissell KudoZ activity Questions: 550 (2 open) (13 without valid answers) (86 closed without grading) Answers: 1850 Portugal
Local time: 16:04

imaginary/forged coup

Explanation:
Aparentemente, o termo "inventona" não existe na língua portuguesa. Parece ser um empréstimo do espanhol e, talvez por isso, aparece entre aspas no texto original.

La intentona: un golpe imaginario
https://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2018/08/19/5b77f0d5e2704ec2ba...

O termo aparece em um artigo publicado no portal da Deutsch Welle, que diz:

"O ataque foi classificado pelas autoridades são-tomenses como 'uma tentativa de golpe de Estado' e condenado pela comunidade internacional." https://www.dw.com/pt-002/oposição-tomense-pede-exoneração-d...

Em vários artigos que encontrei, "inventona" aparece em oposição a "intentona", que é uma tentativa de revolta ou motim:
https://www.aulete.com.br/intentona

motim: 1. Qualquer ato de insurreição contra autoridade civil ou militar… 2. Mil. Rebelião de militares contra seus superiores… (Aulete)

Portanto, "inventona" seria um motim ou golpe imaginário.

A matéria no DW descreve o ocorrido como “atos macabros” e “tentativa de golpe” (já mencionado). Relata uma pessoa ensanguentada com as mãos atadas atrás das costas, além de quatro mortos e muitos feridos. Ao meu ver, essas descrições não podem ser meras "invenções", são fatos concretos, capturados em vídeo.

Example Sentences

The self-styled president-elect of the new republic declaims the hideous unrest to be 'an imaginary coup'.
https://leanpub.com/coup

A statement by the office of the presidency read as follows: "It is with regret that we have learned
that a group from the armed forces mutinied this morning and declared an imaginary coup." http://www.countrywatch.com/content/pdfs/reviews/B35Q954M.01...

England became scared of that; so its agents in Damascus held a forged coup, and made Baath just a cover for the authority. https://islamicsystem.blogspot.com/2012/02/political-concept...

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I think I found a better translation:

So we alert to the clear intention of whitewashing (“branqueamento”) for, despite the explicit and repeated mention in the declarations issued by the illegitimate goverrnment, that the “staged coup d’etat” (“inventona”) would be headed by Capitão Pansau Intchama, it is omitted in a deliberate way that he is a vital witness to the assassination of President João Bernardo Vieira, in fact with blunt affirmations of his participation at the behest of the current Chief of the Armed Forces. https://guinebissaudocs.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/statement-o...

Selected response from:

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 08:04

Grading comment

thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +2

invented story

Patricia Oliveira

4 +1

phoney putsch

Mark Robertson

make-believe

ZT-Translations

imaginary/forged coup

Oliver Simões

fictitious coup (d’état) / uprising attempt

Diego Storto

concoction

Clauwolf

conspiracy

philgoddard

2 +1

(failed) pseudo-coup

Ana Vozone

farce

Simone Taylor

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

16 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

invented story

Explanation:
I would use the literal Idea.

Patricia Oliveira
Brazil
Local time: 12:04
Native speaker of: Portuguese

19 mins confidence:

make-believe

Explanation:
A ideia é de que foi tudo inventado, portanto, acredito que esta seja a melhor definição para esse termo.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/make-believe

ZT-Translations
Brazil
Local time: 12:04
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

32 mins confidence:

concoction

Explanation:
:)

Clauwolf
Local time: 12:04
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

39 mins confidence:

conspiracy

Explanation:
It's in quotes in the original, suggesting it's an unusual word.

It gets hardly any hits. The cover picture of this book may provide a clue:
http://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Triglimpo-Sempaviar-Tome-1-A-gr...

This is about the Portuguese coup of 1974:
http://in-libris.com/products/inventona-do-28-de-setembro-a?...

Your text is about the coup attempt in São Tomé this week. So I think it's likely to mean conspiracy, and I'm not sure it's anything to do with fabrication.

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The cover picture I mention shows a bunch of important-looking men drinking and smoking.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

(failed) pseudo-coup

Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?q="pseudo-coup"&sxsrf=ALiCzsY2...

I thought of "made-up scheme" first, but this being a political episode, I changed my mind...

https://www.google.com/search?q="made-up scheme"&oq="made-up...

Example sentence(s):

In fact it would be more in accordance with reality to call it a pseudo-coup. It is true that in line with the technique of launching a coup,
Sukarno and the Pseudo-Coup of 1965: Ten Years Later. OEY HONG LEE. The action of the 30 September Movement on 1 October 1965 in Indonesia is

Ana Vozone
Local time: 16:04
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 8

40 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

phoney putsch

Explanation:
Julgo ser um jogo de palavras entre intentona = concluio de mutim ou revolta.

https://dicionario.priberam.org/intentona

e invenção,

A palavra surge no contexto de um suposto assalte ao quartel-geral do exércicio de São Tomé e Principe que parece ter sido montado por altos patentes do exército para dar cobertura a uma tentativa de golpe de estado em 25/11/22.

https://observador.pt/2022/12/04/oposicao-sao-tomense-pede-e...

https://www.rfi.fr/pt/programas/convidado/20221128-são-tomé-...

phoney = not genuine, fraudulent
putsch = coup d'état

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Intentona Comunista , também conhecida como Revolta Comunista de 35[1][2], Levante Comunista[3] ou Revolta Vermelha de 35,[4] foi uma tentativa de golpe contra o governo de Getúlio Vargas realizado entre 23 e 27 de novembro de 1935 por militares, em nome da Aliança Nacional Libertadora (A.N.L.), com apoio do Partido Comunista do Brasil e da Internacional Comunista. O levante ocorreu em Natal, Recife e no Rio de Janeiro.

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentona_Comunista

Mark Robertson
Local time: 16:04
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 hr confidence:

farce

Explanation:
Just another suggestion
farce
/fɑːs/
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noun
noun: farce; plural noun: farces
a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.
"he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces"
Similar:
slapstick comedy
broad comedy
slapstick
burlesque
vaudeville
travesty
buffoonery
skit
squib
pasquinade
Opposite:
tragedy
the dramatic genre represented by farces.
"the choreographed confusion of real farce"
an event or situation that is absurd or disorganized.
"the debate turned into a drunken farce"

Simone Taylor
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

6 hrs confidence:

imaginary/forged coup

Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 08:04
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

thanks

1 day 2 hrs confidence:

fictitious coup (d’état) / uprising attempt

Explanation:
Possibilidade alternativa:

• fictitious attempted coup (d’état) / uprising.

Inventona: “Face a isso, o presidente [...] fomentou aquilo que em bom português se chama uma inventona. Não é um golpe de Estado, não é uma tentativa de golpe de Estado, é uma invenção de tentativa de golpe de Estado.” Também: “alegado golpe de mão”.

A propósito, “intentona” e “invenção”, que formam “inventona”, me lembram muito de “fact” e “fiction”, que formam “faction”.

Referências:

https://expresso.pt/blogues/blogue_maghreb_machrek/a-erratic...

https://www.makaangola.org/2015/07/a-inventona-um-caso-para-...

https://heitor-omximo.blogspot.com/2012/10/bissau-grande-inv...

https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/golp...

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/10/faction.html

Diego Storto
Brazil
Local time: 12:04
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

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