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The Syrian revolution is essentially a civilian and political rebellion against
dictatorship
– one that is gradually unraveling Assad’s regime.
Such values animated the fight against Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism, fascism, and military dictatorship; in their name, decolonization was achieved, and minorities gained equality and dignity.
Now, Maduro is working to entrench an increasingly authoritarian dictatorship, with the help of a new “constitution”, which is expected soon from the fraudulently elected National Constituent Assembly that sanctioned the “presidential election” in May.
The gravity of Venezuela’s situation and its effects on the entire hemisphere have thus far proved insufficient to mobilize a majority of OAS governments to convince Maduro that the region’s democracies will not stand by idly while a totalitarian
dictatorship
and base for international organized crime emerges.
The long-term consequences will far outstrip those of the international debt crisis or the demise of the Libyan dictatorship, the news stories now commanding media attention.
But the regime, like Franco’s dictatorship, did not treat the members of this new middle class like adults, thereby encouraging widespread frustration.
And no one can deny the religious authority of Pope John Paul II as a spur to Poland’s rebellion against Communist
dictatorship
in the 1980’s.
Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military
dictatorship.
The West cannot accept the possibility that the Assad dictatorship, however brutal, may be the least bad option on offer.
The solution to dysfunctional democracy is not military dictatorship, but more democracy.
In either scenario, Brazil would end up with an extremist president who has praised the military
dictatorship
of the 1960s and 1970s, because the only candidate who could have beaten him was struck from the ballot.
That silence is being rewarded with the first-ever joint cabinet sessions between a democracy and a communist dictatorship, which will take place in Berlin this autumn.
Such condescension may have been defensible when South Korea’s military
dictatorship
needed America’s political protection and security guarantee, but now the country is a beacon of democracy in East Asia.
Burma’s AgonyAs the death toll mounts from the cyclone that struck a densely populated area of Burma stretching from the Irrawaddy Delta to the capital city of Rangoon continues to soar, the country’s military
dictatorship
is pressing ahead with efforts to consolidate its power.
All of us tend to make the same mistake repeatedly: we think at the beginning of a revolution that freedom and justice have prevailed over
dictatorship
and cruelty.
Since 1945, it has been an oddity: a hereditary communist
dictatorship
whose legitimacy rests on its claim to be the vanguard of Korean nationalism.
During the current financial crisis, which hit Russia right after the war with Georgia last August, the Kremlin and the Duma issued a series of laws and orders that have turned Putin’s authoritarianism into a
dictatorship.
Against this background, Brazil is preparing for its most important presidential election since its transition from
dictatorship
to democracy in 1985 – and the polls do not bode well for Rousseff.
Old jokes from the pre-1990 days have returned, like this one: a man was walking down a Kathmandu street, shouting, “Down with
dictatorship
in Pakistan.”
At the police station, he asked the protestor, “Why are you denouncing
dictatorship
in Pakistan when it exists here?”
Qutb was executed by Gamel Abdel Nasser’s
dictatorship
in Egypt in August 1966, in an attempt to reduce his influence.
After decades of struggle against
dictatorship
and foreign domination, we secured our freedom and independence in 1979 by establishing a political system of our own choosing.
Governments that live by their constitutional principles, even when they are imperfectly interpreted and applied, should avoid slipping back into
dictatorship
and are likely to be self-correcting over time.
In our much more democratic and interconnected world, it is possible that a clear international norm limiting time in power could spare the world from
dictatorship
and destabilization in the future.
Outside observers saw the popular rebellion against Hosni Mubarak’s regime as a struggle for democracy over dictatorship; the generals who once again rule Egypt portray it as a fight for secularism that was hijacked by radical Islam.
One of the exhibits at the event featured a display of cartoons published during the
dictatorship
in Pasquim, an alternative magazine similar to the British satirical weekly magazine Private Eye.
But they rarely appreciate the texture of their democracy and civil society – the relative newness of hard-won freedoms and the intimate understanding of what tyranny, whether a homegrown
dictatorship
or a colonial administration, means to individual liberty.
The Philippines Joins the Asian RaceMANILA – In 1980, my father arrived in the United States to undergo a heart bypass, due to the rigors of his imprisonment by the
dictatorship
of Ferdinand Marcos.
The
dictatorship
offered him a reprieve, but, true to its nature, one dependent on its whims.
Three years later, my father went home, not to die, but to infuse new life into the demoralized ranks of the opposition to the
dictatorship.
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