Word: authoritarian
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...best place to find vintage American cars from the 1950s is not anywhere in the United States. It is Havana, Cuba, once a balmy tourist spot and the seat of the authoritarian regime led until last week by Fidel Castro. Boxy, majestic Chevys and Pontiacs haunt the streets here, reinforced with fenders made from scrap metal, painted and repainted past recognition...
...Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into the status quo over the course of decades, banning American trade, then tourism, then remittances, and finally any business exchange with foreign firms that violate Cuban alienation. In a triumph of branding, this last restriction was named the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, on the presumption that the best...
...TIME: So, the thing is: there's a never-ending war in the Middle East. There's starvation and strife in Africa. There's authoritarian rule in Asia, corruption in South America, and a really poor crop of American Idol contestants this season. Why should women want to rule the world...
...Argentina to get out of the Falklands. Reversing Jimmy Carter's policy, which denied aid to Argentina because of its human rights violations, the Reagan Administration was trying to work closely with the junta. U.N. Ambassador Kirkpatrick had singled out the Argentine regime as an example of a "friendly authoritarian" government...
...decades later, Ahsan is still trying to break authoritarian rule. Now president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, he led tens of thousands of lawyers and other pro-democracy activists in nationwide demonstrations last summer after President Pervez Musharraf sacked the independent-minded Chief Justice. The protests received little more than token support from the Bush Administration, but they rattled Musharraf, prompting him to suspend the constitution, dismiss the Supreme Court and lock up hundreds of political and civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since...