Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Cuba was only going through the motions. Between them. Dictator Fulgencio Batista and Rebel Chief Fidel Castro had throttled all chances of democratic process in this week's presidential election. Cuba's Supreme Electoral Tribunal, sitting as arbiter of election disputes, is a Batista tool. Batista'...
From his exile in the Canary Islands, ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla had flown home to Bogota, gambling that the fledgling government would never dare throw a former army boss in jail. He misjudged his opponents. While Rojas held court to a handful of admirers in the town house of...
A few days later President Alberto Lleras Camargo called Rojas' bluff. Troops and cops rumbled up in tanks and halftracks, sealed off a 60-block area around Roias' residence. A police colonel and a squad of soldiers hustled the ex-dictator off to a nearby office building, where...
Ever since the reign of Dictator Getulio Vargas, a pair of Vargas-founded parties-one a left-winging, Communist-infiltrated labor party, the other the nationalistic party of President Juscelino Kubitschek-have had things pretty much their own way in Brazil. Now a conservative, middle-roading party is challenging the...
The victory was all the more impressive because the U.D.N. and Juracy were political also-rans for years. Once Vargas' governor of the important state of Bahia, Juracy broke with the dictator in 1937, helped found the U.D.N. to fight the dictatorship. But in its first campaign, U.D.N.'...