estábamos maquinando
-we were plotting
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maquinar

Nos amenazaron con expulsarnos del país, con declararnos persona non grata, y se dijo que estábamos maquinando un golpe de Estado, un coup d'état.
We were threatened with expulsion from the country, threatened with being persona non grata, and it was said that we were staging a golpe - a coup d'état.
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