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Such an outcome would be a triumph for the cause of hardline dictatorship, suppression of human rights, and Iran and Russia.
Life in a totalitarian
dictatorship
is a daily misery.
Don’t worry if the country in question is a democracy or a
dictatorship.
Yet he clearly is not interested in establishing representative institutions or strengthening the rule of law, so his country will have become a personal
dictatorship.
The investigation into the death in 1980 of ex-president Frei Montalva, the principal opponent of the dictatorship, has advanced but needs to be pursued vigorously in the courts.
The Chilean government’s excessive caution – rooted in fear of instability that could affect the basic rights regained after the
dictatorship
– also helped Pinochet evade justice.
Indeed, Mr Tung's anticipatory subservience to the real or imagined wishes of China's rulers exposed the congenital flaw in the political architecture of uniting a liberal society with a
dictatorship.
The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), another former Al Qaeda ally, abandoned the ideology between 2005 and 2010 and joined the revolution against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s
dictatorship.
This cleared a path to the peaceful dismantling of communist
dictatorship
throughout the entire Soviet bloc.
Chile’s excellent economic performance has been the result of the free-market policies introduced during the military
dictatorship
of General Augusto Pinochet but confirmed and strengthened by democratically elected governments over the 25 years since he left office.
This is the stuff of dictatorship, not democracy.
The largest democracy in the world cannot say openly that it almost preferred the military
dictatorship
of General Pervez Musharraf to the chaos of the current situation.
One of the strongest and most powerful democratic institutions in the world – the European Union – has no qualms in making a public promise to the Cuban
dictatorship
that it will re-institute diplomatic Apartheid.
Long a military dictatorship, Mali became an African democratic success story from 1991 to 2012, before a coup crippled its rudimentary public institutions.
Opening up markets to the free flow of capital, not the
dictatorship
of the proletariat, has rendered state power obsolete.
But the
dictatorship
of generals, sadly, was replaced by the
dictatorship
of an idea: macroeconomic stabilization.
Now that dictatorship, too, is beginning to crumble.
Despite years of failing to improve income distribution or to create real jobs, investment, and livable wages, the
dictatorship
of macroeconomics remains entrenched.
The
dictatorship
of macroeconomics is neither inclined to make concessions or to learn from past experience.
But these were also troubled times for Brazil politically, as the country was still consolidating its transition to democracy after 20 years of military
dictatorship.
In 2005, when Sirleaf was elected, Liberia was a shambles, following 25 years of civil war and
dictatorship.
Democracy has not tempered South Korean chauvinism much, either, since the demise of the military
dictatorship
in the 1980’s.
Ben Ali’s regime ultimately became a pure
dictatorship.
Polish, Czechoslovak, and Yugoslav students directed their protests against the Communist dictatorship, which was depriving their societies of elementary civic freedoms.
At several crucial moments, he established himself as the only person who could rise to the challenges of transforming Russia from a
dictatorship
into a democracy, from a planned economy into a free market, and from an empire into a medium-ranked power.
Ortega’s victory, achieved by emulating the machinations of Mexico’s long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and of Alberto Fujimori’s elected
dictatorship
in Peru in the 1990’s, strongly suggests that Latin American democracy remains fragile.
Human rights will not co-exist with dictatorship, or with any other non-democracy, for long.
At this point, society either succumbs to
dictatorship
or forges a new social compact that accepts the revolution’s key results.
It never really declared communism over, merely that the Ceausescu
dictatorship
was finished.
Romania, indeed, seems almost ripe for any bold demagogue to offer to replace this so-called "weak and rotten state" with a "strong and sound
" dictatorship.
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