Dictatorship
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With the end of the
dictatorship
regime of Mobutu Sese Seko, that most of you know, life became very, very difficult.
Back in the '70s, they would write pamphlets to raise awareness on the dictatorship, and because they couldn't afford to make copies, they would reproduce the same pamphlet 500 times each and distribute them.
But then at the same time, you also need to know that no country is actually destined to be oppressed, while at the same time, no country or no people are immune to oppression and
dictatorship.
My family's lives were crushed by a communist
dictatorship.
In 1936, while Neruda was working at the consulate in Madrid, civil war broke out and the government was overthrown by a fascist military
dictatorship.
(Speaks Spanish) I was born in a democracy, in a country called Venezuela, which is now a
dictatorship.
(Speaks Spanish) My work as a cartoonist became more and more of a nuisance for the
dictatorship.
Many film scholars believe that Lloyd was prompted to make this film because he saw the presidency of FDR as a
dictatorship
bent on soaking the rich and soft on crime.
American Tourist on package tour in Asia suffering recent bereavement decides to break law by: 1 Ignoring curfew; 2 Joining revolutionary army; 3 Possessing and using illegal firearm...... etc etc What is meant to be a political and educational statement about the so called atrocities of a military
dictatorship
in Asia ends up as a "How To" travel guide for disillusioned Americans....especially those who wish to protest that the water in the hotel does not work.... Regrettably the authors of this silly yarn have no clue about Asia...nor it seems in writing sensible dialogue... example:...our human-rights heroine searching desperately for medicine in the furthest outreaches of the Asian jungle miles from anywhere comes across a peasant and asks: "Excuse me-does this town have a pharmacy?"...Well....those who know something about the Asian jungle will appreciate how ludicrous that scenario really is.... Mind you I was recently in the Thai jungle and an American asked me.... "excuse me....do you know where is MacDonalds?"
While initially the revolution promised freedom, at this point the small committee running the country is extremely repressive and is a
dictatorship.
I live in South America, in a country that suffered a military
dictatorship
just like the one the movie tries to describe, and even though everyone knows movies may be far far away from reality, this particular movie treats viewers as both ignorant and stupid.
Even pardoning that, what on earth is Kentucky Fried Chicken doing in a military
dictatorship
in South America in 1970?
I have seen this movie so many times and I find it even actual these days (2003) when Italy suffers again from a sort of brainwashing
dictatorship
(or the US for that matter).
This film tells the story of coup/conspiracy by Venezuela's elite, the oil companies and oil loving corrupt western governments, to remove democratically elected president Chavez, and return Venezuela back to a brutal
dictatorship.
A more intelligent and poignant critique of our Western 'capitalist
dictatorship'
(the words of our three anti-heroes!),
A very human and poetic love story during the Pinochet's
dictatorship
is shown in La Frontera, when oppositors were sent to little villages far away from everything and a series of strange relations start.
The reconstructions of the forensic evidence or lack of it would never pass in the real world unless you were in a totalitarian
dictatorship.
John is hired and travels to Buenos Aires to execute a former general from the Argentinian dictatorship, and he is concerned with his stepdaughter's sooner birthday.
Denmark is presented as a kind of royal
dictatorship.
This was a very touching film, especially for such a man as me who was only 4 years old at the 1956 revolution against the communist
dictatorship
supported by the Soviets.
After the conquest of this revolution with the help of Soviets a tragic new
dictatorship
fell over my fatherland for another 33 years which was full with lying and falsification of history.
Just as I had done in Spain a few years before, Merkel reacted to the collapse of the
dictatorship
she lived in by leaving physics to embrace public service.
But it was also defined by adherence to Deng’s “four cardinal principles”: the socialist road; the people’s democratic dictatorship; the leadership of the CPC; and Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Zedong Thought.
Curiously, many of the young democracies born after the ignominy of the right-wing military regimes of the 1970’s and 1980’s define themselves according to Cuba’s long-lasting communist
dictatorship.
In another country, such measures might trigger harsh reproach, with critics accusing Xi of turning his country into an old-school Leninist
dictatorship.
(The political conditions that facilitated these endeavors – whether China’s one-party system or Park Chung-hee’s two-decade-long de-facto
dictatorship
in South Korea – are another matter.)
His “decisive struggle against dictatorship” – and determined opposition to any deal with Bhutto that excludes him – will intensify.
But nobody knew with any precision just when open revolt against Burma’s military
dictatorship
would erupt.
Perhaps the most encouraging aspect of my visit to Burma was a willingness to open up and learn from other countries that have navigated the painful transition from
dictatorship
to democracy.
Such jubilation appeared to express the possibility of freedom from the tyranny of a
dictatorship
frozen in time and place.
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