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...rebels accuse President Deby of running a dictatorship and say they will bring democracy to the country, which has been exploiting its oil riches for just a few years. Successive governments in Chad have put down regular uprisings, but this insurgency seems more serious: the ongoing conflict in Darfur has given the rebels a secure base from which to attack. "Chad is a sister state to Darfur," says Dr. Eltayeb Hag Ateya, the director of the Center for Conflict Research at the University of Khartoum. "All the presidents of Chad are either installed by or forced out by forces that...
Thirty years ago, the world was different. In 1976, a coup d’état introduced military dictatorship in Argentina for the sixth time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Perón two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign...
...admiring the impeccable organization of Lukashenko's election: all so orderly, just like in Switzerland, he enthused. Well, yes, order is admirable - didn't the trains run on time under Mussolini, which doesn't always happen in Italy under democracy? That's the eternal problem: democracy is messy, dictatorship is orderly and solemn - not unlike a cemetery...
...matter how bad the sectarian violence gets in Iraq, politicians in Washington love to tout the flowering of democracy in Saddam Hussein's former dictatorship. But not all the fruits of Iraqi democracy are to Washington's taste - the Bush Administration has reportedly told the Shi'ite bloc that dominates Iraq's elected legislature that President Bush opposes its nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari to a second term as Prime Minister...
...Acrimony Your report on the Philippines' 1986 People Power movement, which jettisoned the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, depicted the miscarriage of the nation's effort to achieve a vibrant democracy [Feb. 27]. The Philippines has the potential to reclaim its status as one of Asia's wealthiest countries. But its inexhaustible supply of acrimony, cynicism and outright selfishness?especially as manifested by the political class?has thwarted its aspirations. Filipinos should rally around constructive reforms aimed at long-term development. Only when the government and its people embrace disciplined measures can the nation achieve lasting peace and prosperity?a new People...