dictator

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“The House of the Spirits” spans half a century, including the coup that replaced a socialist president with a military dictator, based on Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, respectively, though neither are ever named.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu came to the UK in 1978, a memo from then-Foreign Secretary David Owen asked: "Who agreed to this visit? Did I? If I did, I regret it."

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Current dictator and Castro heir Miguel Díaz-Canel said in an address to the nation last week that Cuba is in talks with Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The comments, broadcast nationwide in Cuba, are the first confirmation of bilateral talks between two governments that have been fierce adversaries for almost 70 years, since Fidel Castro’s revolution toppled the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

At the same time, the German dictator built up a huge military and started hacking out what he called a “Greater Germany,” a massive European empire that Hitler insisted rightfully belonged to Germans.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin