Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venezuela. Last week the government announced that it had negotiated a $289 million loan from a consortium of U.S., British and Canadian banks to put part of the burdensome $1.4 billion debt left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez on a businesslike basis.
A onetime journalist, university president, secretary-general of the Organization of American States and veteran of a previous tour as President (1945-46), Lleras got the National Front started by joining his Liberals with Laureano Gómez' Conservatives to aid a group of fed-up army officers bounce...
The Argentine Senate, whose every seat is held by President Arturo Frondizi's Intransigent Radicals, rubber-stamped the President's sweeping labor code one day last week, and the way was left clear for followers of ex-Dictator Juan Perón to recapture their old stronghold of...
As the marines took over, Castro's rebels protested. The marines, they said, were violating Cuban sovereignty, and by relieving Cuban sentries for antirebel combat duty, they were aiding Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro's complaints did not impress Washington, but the State Department was put out with the...
The realities of Franco's rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and...