Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by...
At one time or another all three of them were in the same line of work; outsiders might easily picture ex-Dictator Juan Peron, 63, and ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, 58, gathered around Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's warm swimming pool in the Dominican Republic, reminiscing about the good...
"Hit by a Truck." Old Dictator Trujillo himself rarely stirs out of his rock-walled white palace; he is too busy planning his defense. Last week he called up 6,000 army reservists to build his active-duty force to 21,000 men (only half of them well trained). He...
The Cuban peso, on a par with the dollar for 44 years, turned soft; the foreign-money markets knocked it down to 75? or worse. Reason: nobody knew how many fresh green millions Dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies had lugged away. Castro's government ordered all $500 and...
"I am a man of the people. Not aristocratic not military, but a man of the people . . . If 51 per cent of the people didn't want the executions there would be none. But when 90 per cent of Cuba want them, I would be a dictator if I stopped...