Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATIVE Chilean Isabel Allende's third novel, Eva Luna, takes us away from the military dictatorship and riot police of her previous works and into a world where guerrilla fighters, African saints and women who sleep in coffins dominate...
...wipe out the drug traffic. Noting that some officers discharged since the coup have been associated with narcotics, Avril said, "They had blemished the image of the armed forces." Avril has also moved to disarm the remnants of the Tonton Macoutes, the dreaded secret police during the 28-year dictatorship of Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc"), who fled in 1986. Although calling himself only an "accidental and provisional President," Avril pledged to prepare the way for an "irreversible democracy." Said he: "I am a missionary." The President obviously expects his mission to be advanced...
...reminded the world that there is no inevitability to the progress of the democratic idea. In Burma a new military regime seized power, snuffing out the hopes of that country's population for a new dawn of political freedom after the 26-year nightmare of Ne Win's repressive dictatorship. In Haiti a cadre of sergeants took over the government from a cadre of generals who had themselves seized power from an inexperienced civilian government just months earlier. But the mutineers from the lower ranks at least called for democracy, a state of being unknown to Haitians for almost their...
...festival, "Images in the Shadows: A History of Spanish Cinema," documents the progression of Spanish film from the late 1920's through the years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship up to the modern...
...Mazursky and star Richard Dreyfuss worked together in Beverly Hills, while Parador's other stars, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga, appeared together in Spider Woman. Also, Parador, like Beverly Hills, means to be a comedy of social and cultural clashes, while using the political instability of a Latin American dictatorship as a backdrop, like Spider Woman...