Word: authoritarian
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...group of prominent Chinese scholars, lawyers and former officials issued a manifesto this week calling on the Communist Party to back wide-ranging political reforms including direct elections, a separation of powers and the rehabilitation of people persecuted under authoritarian rule...
...country is currently coping with the aftermath of the abuses of Fujimori’s authoritarian regime. Social studies lecturer Theodore Macdonald, Jr. said that in times like these, the heightened attention to human rights results in progress. He pointed to numerous human rights measures recently passed by the United Nations...
...other would-be rulers-for-life), Latin Americans look askance at lifetime presidencies. That's why even voters next door in Colombia look set to deny their remarkably popular conservative President, Alvaro Uribe, a third term when his second expires in 2010. Chávez does have an authoritarian streak and is indeed a gushing admirer of Castro, and with the legislature and judiciary firmly under Chávez's control, Venezuela's democratic institutions are hardly a showcase...
...remember driving down the roads in Somalia, and you'd see all these scrap heaps of MiGs and tanks" from the 1969-1991 reign of Siad Barre, the Somali dictator allied with the Soviet Union, Zinni says. "During the Cold War, one side or the other kept authoritarian regimes in power who controlled this sort of thing...
...years the Chinese people have been willing to put up with an authoritarian government so long as it generated jobs and opportunities. Now, with the economy slowing, growth needs to be maintained, goes conventional wisdom, at a minimum of about 8% - in part to forestall the labor unrest that Beijing fears could spread and turn into protests against the ruling Communist Party. Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest...