Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A U.S. District Court last week ordered Venezuelan ex-Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez to stick close to his Miami Beach mansion for 60 days so that he can be in court when his successors make their case for extraditing him on charges of murder, embezzlement and...
Pérez Jiménez-bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in...
On the front page of its literary section one day last week, Mexico City's daily Novedades (News) printed what it called "testimony against that type of journalism that ought to disappear." Part of the testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro...
Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband...