Word: dictatorship
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...places: stacked on street corners, stashed beneath poll workers' beds, tossed into ravines. But such irregularities are one thing; the gunshots, screams and sirens that have traditionally attended mass action in Haiti are another, and they were notably absent from this election. In a country that had known only dictatorship and political bloodshed for 200 years, something heartening had occurred: a peaceful exercise in democracy. Only after the voting took place did violence erupt, when one candidate shot and killed his opponent...
...Beirut with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She returned to Chile at 15, married an Anglo-Chilean engineer at 20 and worked as a journalist on women's and children's magazines. After her cousin's overthrow, she became caught up in the resistance to the dictatorship and was forced into a financially pinched and emotionally isolated exile in Venezuela. Eventually her marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American lawyer, William Gordon. It was to their house...
Argentina's army chief of staff, General Mart?n Balza, admitted that the country's military dictatorship tortured and killed political opponents in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The military, he said, "employed illegitimate methods, including the suppression of life, to obtain information." The announcement, the first official confirmation of such abuses during the so-called Dirty War, follows the recent confessions by two former military men that they took part in secret "death flights," in which sedated but still living victims were thrown from aircraft into the Atlantic...
...highest level, when we progress from dictatorship or oligarchy to the type of democratic government that we entrust to safeguard our lives and liberty, honesty becomes absolutely essential. The very definition of a democracy is a society in which the government is given a mandate by the people to serve the people...
...their arguments are at least understandable. Suppose you are a patriotic Russian in your 60s. Your childhood was passed amid the horrors and suffering of the Great Patriotic War, in which millions died to defend the Motherland against Nazism. Then you survived Stalin, watched the utopian fantasies of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat go into sclerosis in the 1960s and '70s, and saw the imperium collapse in the '80s. Today the yellow arches of McDonald's shed their plastic gleam on Red Square, and gangsterism rules instead of socialist virtue. You know the Nazis inflicted incalculable damage on your nation...