Word: dictatorship
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...number of Chilean sources have indicated that Chile's Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 12-10 to lift the former president's immunity from prosecution, opening the way to a slew of prosecutions for kidnapping, torture, murder and other human rights violations during the general's 17-year dictatorship. Pinochet eluded a court date in Spain earlier this year when the British government ruled he was too ill to stand trial, and sent him home, where the general had presumed the immunity he'd authored as a condition for restoring democracy would protect him from further pursuit...
...Chileans went to the polls during his 18-month absence and returned to power the same Socialist party Pinochet had overthrown in his 1973 coup, and despite the moderation of new president Ricardo Lagos, who was briefly jailed under the dictatorship, his government is quite happy to see Pinochet on the defensive. "For the most part this is simply going through the motions of stripping Pinochet of his immunity and of his glory in order to correct the historical record," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Given his rapidly declining health he's unlikely ever to make...
...pains to distinguish between trade with China, of which he's an enthusiastic advocate, and trade with Cuba, which he firmly opposes. Cuba "is the only remaining communist country in the world except for North Korea," Lott maintained, and "Castro has shown no repentance; he's running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming European, Latin American and Canadian investors. But even...
...Nigerians had run out of reasons to stay. They'd held elections at home, ending a military dictatorship that had sought to stay in the West's good books by playing sheriff in West Africa. And the West was offering nothing by way of finance, weapons or logistical support to maintain the mission. Britain and the U.S., embroiled in Kosovo, simply wanted the Sierra Leone problem to go away. But the rebels' control over the diamond fields gave them a long-term source of funding that made them both a more formidable force and a more intractable...
Princess Margarita said her country's poor state of affairs could be blamed on the lack of competitive political parties and world financial support and the lingering effects of the harsh Communist dictatorship...