Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican elite had assassinated Trujillo in an effort to seize for themselves the enormous economic power he retained for his personal pleasures. But releasing economic control from the Trujillo dictatorship was in no way an effort to redistribute wealth. Social responsibility among the elite is non-existent...
Today, after 32 years of dictatorship, the Dominican people have been asked to chart their own future. Many of their present concerns reflect a society allowed to examine itself for the first time. Involved in such thought are the most fundamental questions of man and his relation to society. A chief issue of the summer, for example, became whether illegitimate children deserve equal status under...
...many Brazilians that spells dictatorship. Almost everyone seemed against Goulart's demand for extraordinary powers-the right, the left, the press, state governors and a large section of Congress. Only Goulart and some powerful members of the military were emphatically for it. Said Air Minister Anisio Botelho cryptically: "Either we fall or we stand...
...least, as a peaceful insurrection. Aït Ahmed called Ben Bella a "potentate," charged him with "betraying his comrades" and "destroying the revolution," added: "If the government wants to change its ways, we are ready to discuss things sincerely. If it refuses, we refuse to rally to this dictatorship...
...pointed out that even the positive achievements of the Trujillo dictatorship were attacked by the rioting which followed his death. 'It was hard to start anything after 31 years of Trujillo," he observed...