Word: authoritarianism
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...military junta that routinely uses terror to enforce its will. Deep scars remain from a 1973-76 antileftist purge in which tens of thousands of Chileans were exiled, tortured or executed. Meanwhile, the politically explosive gulf between rich and poor has steadily grown wider. "We broke an authoritarian system," said Ricardo Lagos, president of the Party for Democracy, one of the 16 groups that made up the Command for the No, which led the campaign to defeat Pinochet. "Now our work is to reconstruct a democratic system...
...some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden as their first meeting drew to a close, "call me anti-authoritarian...
After 15 years of authoritarian rule, Pinochet agrees to uphold results of a plebiscite. While the vote is a turning point, it will not transform the country overnight, and the future is far from certain. -- Perestroika brings intriguing changes to the KGB. -- Why South Africa is so eagerly courting its black neighbors. -- Foreign troops are leaving, but Angola still bleeds...
...constitutionally elected President, but President Eric Arturo Delvalle discovered otherwise last February when he tried to fire General Manuel Noriega and found himself ousted instead. Next month Chileans will have an opportunity to vote in a national plebiscite for or against a continuation of the 15-year-old authoritarian regime of General Augusto Pinochet. A no vote could mark the beginning of a return to political democracy for Chile, but many Chileans fear that it would not be honored by General Pinochet or other senior military officials...
...Seoul's Olympic stadium, the host country will have more to show off than a vibrant economy: it will be able to point to an astonishing political accomplishment. In little more than a year, the South Koreans, ever the industrious builders, have torn down the rigid structure of an authoritarian regime and constructed in its stead a brash new democracy. As is obvious to anyone who has watched the images of student demonstrations and political protest flicker across a television screen, it is a system beset by imperfection, discord and conflict, riven by diverse opinions and hot tempers...