Word: dictatorship
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Harlan said yesterday, "I personally think him (Carvalho) one of the greatest witnesses of change in the world. He is a source of information and testimony of two deciding years of liberation and democracy in Europe. He has freed the country of the same kind of arbitrary rules of dictatorship that he is a victim...
...legal and economic structures must be totally overhauled if Nicaragua is to be able to use her abundant natural resources and national territory for her own development and thereby pull the country out of the poverty and oppression that have resulted from more than 40 years of imperialism and dictatorship...
Somoza's dictatorship defies our philosophy of human rights, but the first principle of our foreign policy must be the security of the U.S. If we jeopardize our own security by permitting Communist bases around us, no freedom and no human rights will be safe in any country of the world...
...population of this small Central American country--from businessmen to industrialists to religious leaders to peasants. The mass of poor Nicaraguans see the multi-millionaire Somoza as the chief cause of their poverty. The Roman Catholic Church, hardly a bastion of Marxism and a long-time opponent of the dictatorship, has reiterated its plea for an end to the Somoza family's rule. In a letter to President Carter, Nicaraguan church leaders charged that the U.S. has helped maintain Somoza's power through "brute force," and called for an end to U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan government. The annual American...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--The Anastasio Somoza dictatorship came full circle yesterday when it imposed military censorship on the country's only national opposition paper, La Prensa. The January 10 assassination of La Prensa's publisher, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, set off the current wave of anti-Somoza violence, in which at least 500 persons have been killed and 1000 wounded this week...