Word: dictatorship
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...would think there is a collective interest in keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of the mad and reckless hermit dictatorship of North Korea. There is not. Disarming Kim Jong Il would require China to starve and break his regime. Why doesn't Beijing act? Because China has a prime interest in maintaining a friendly communist ally as a buffer between itself and U.S. forces in South Korea; as a roadblock to a dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea; and as a distraction keeping America tied down in the northern Pacific, while China maneuvers to regain Taiwan and extend its influence...
...Instead, Spanish-speaking Macbeths encouraged hatred toward their neighbors, and thus gained control of small local territories. Almost without exception, betrayal and dictatorship followed absolute control: The liberators of the day were the dictators of the next...
...recent uptick in prosecution and conviction of the former officers responsible for widespread human rights abuses during the 1976-83 military dictatorship has been accompanied by increasing incidents of intimidation of witnesses and judicial officials. "There has never been such a wave of threats before," adds Tati Almeida, whose own son was never seen again after being abducted by military forces three decades...
...looking for him everywhere, almost with desperation," Kirchner said. "We hope to God things are not how we imagine, but the past has not been defeated and we must be on the alert." Following the apparent abduction, the government retired 36 police officers who had served during the dictatorship, although human rights groups claim other veterans of that abusive era remain in active service...
...Despite the threats, the Etchecolatz conviction has offered new hope to relatives of the missing who had seen justice postponed over the two decades since the fall of the dictatorship. A handful of generals were incarcerated following the return to democracy in 1983, but judicial proceedings were blocked by amnesty laws that had been passed by Congress under the threat of a military uprising by disgruntled officers in 1986. By 1990, the few officers imprisoned before those amnesties took effect were freed by then President Carlos Menem, desp?te massive protest marches across Argentina. The amnesty laws that had protected human...