Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carlos' final years of university education. Actually, it was to make peace. In Portugal. Don Juan makes no bones of his opposition to the idea of becoming a mere figurehead for Franco. He favors a liberal, constitutional system, similar to that in Britain, is outspokenly opposed to strongman dictatorship. "Portugal," he once told New York Timesman C. L. Sulzberger. "is a republic where, if you mention the word republic, you are clapped in jail; Spain is a monarchy where, if you mention the word monarchy, you are clapped in jail...
...took him to the U.S.: Washington (as ambassador), Bretton Woods (to help organize the World Bank), San Francisco (to help set up the U.N.). Returning to Peru, he built La Prensa along U.S. newspaper lines into the most influential daily in Lima. He at first supported the army dictatorship headed by Manuel Odria, then helped persuade Odria to eliminate himself by holding the free election that Prado...
Across the face of Latin America last week, dictatorship had its way in one election, and rumblings of rebellion preceded two others...
...foot in the door, he "saved the morality of altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that leaves the victims of dictatorship feeling "selfish" if they resist. "The ulti mate monument to Kant and the whole altruist morality is Soviet Russia...
...when rumors began circulating that A.D. was planning to replace the army with a "peasants' militia," Pérez Jiménez and his brother officers rebelled. They cut down A.D. in mid-reform, arrested Gallegos, hounded Betancourt into exile, and began a new and bloody military dictatorship...