dictatorship

“Although local officials have raised cries of a federal ‘occupation’ and ‘dictatorship,’ the Constitution places on the president the duty to ‘take care that the laws are faithfully executed.’

"But he's co-opted the Venezuelan opposition's language of how this is not just a dictatorship - it's a criminal regime."

Spain had just emerged from a decades-long dictatorship that ended with the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, and consumers were hungry for more modern clothes.

The dissident said that following his re-arrest "the cruelty of the dictatorship towards me has known no bounds".

Under international pressure, the dictatorship finally released him and a small number of others who stayed in Cuba.