Thwarted | Word Thwarted at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

Disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions
To be curbed, stood up to, in a word thwarted, exercises the character, elasticates the spirit, makes it pliant.
In Bolivia, three foreign nationals were killed and two arrested in what the Bolivian government called a thwarted assassination plot on President Evo Morales.
That article you link to is a bit disingenuous, making Gono out to be some kind of thwarted saviour.

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