dictatorship

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• 4/2/2023
  

  This Year Marks the 50th Anniversary of a Dark Episode in the History of Sports Stadiums

  by Matthew Kastel

  As Americans return to stadiums with hope and joy at baseball's Opening Day, it's worth remembering that stadiums have been the sites of absurd moments of political theater and dire human rights abuses. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  1/24/2023
  

  "Argentina, 1985" Gets Oscar Nod

  The film has sparked debate in Argentina over its representation of events, but tells the story of the first successful civilian trial of a military dictatorship. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/27/2022
  

  Spain's New Citizenship Law for Exiles from Franco Portends Massive Return from Latin America

  Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/2022
  

  Sending Dictators to a Luxury Retirement? More Practical Than You Think

  by Brian Klaas

  From a realistic point of view, approaching dictators in crisis with an offer of a safe and luxurious retirement is the best way to spare their countries the violence and economic pillaging that accompany the bitter end of an autocratic regime. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/2022
  

  New Generation Whitewashes History of Marcos Dictatorship in Philippines

  Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. is at the brink of winning the presidency in the Philippines, partly because of social media campaigns denying the atrocities committed by his father's regime. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/17/2021
  

  "Time We Can't Get Back": Chilean Adoptees Uncover Their Past

  Chile's right-wing dictatorship took hundreds – possibly thousands – of infants from their families and concealed the facts of their birth from them. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  11/12/2020
  

  What The 'Strongmen' Of History Reveal About Modern Politics

  Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat studies authoritarian regimes, like Italy under Mussolini. Can a democracy pry itself out of a strongman's grip?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/10/2020
  

  Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump (review)

  by Francis Fukuyama

  The political theorist Francis Fukuyama offers a brief review of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's book on authoritarian strongmen, and suggests paying more attention to Trump's unique characteristics in order to prepare for future instances of Trumpism.

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?

  by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres

  Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/11/2020
  

  "GUILTY": Justice for the Jesuits in El Salvador

  Applying the doctrine of Universal Jurisdiction for human rights abuses, a Spanish Court found former El Salvador Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano guilty in the assassination of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women in 1989. The National Security Archive supplied hundreds of declassified documents as evidence. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/5/18
  

  30 years ago Pinochet proposed using violence to change the outcome of a plebiscite on his dictatorship

  Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended. 

• SOURCE: AP
  2-3-13
  

  New Dutch queen daughter of junta minister

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Prince Willem-Alexander’s ascension to the Dutch throne in April promises to be a shining moment on the world stage for his wife, Maxima, and her home country of Argentina. But there will be a glaring absence at the ceremony.Queen Beatrix’s announcement this week that she’ll step aside and let her son become king raised new questions about the future queen’s father, Jorge Zorreguieta, one of the longest-serving civilian ministers in Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.Maxima’s parents already missed out on their daughter’s 2002 wedding to avoid offending Dutch sensibilities about human rights violations by the South American junta. Anticipating more unpleasant questions, Maxima told the prime minister that her parents won’t attend her swearing-in as queen, either....