dictatorship
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Ms. Rodríguez doesn’t have an entirely free hand in the dictatorship.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric, a leftist who has called Cuba a dictatorship, said his government would also provide aid to Cuba through Unicef.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s dictatorship was a triumph of techne that put his nation at arms, but it failed to restore stable frameworks of themis.
Students, standing on a footbridge at the Central University of Venezuela, spoke about democracy and the end of dictatorship.
"It's taking time for people to say 'we trust you' after 50 years of dictatorship," she explains, emphasising that trust is needed "people to people" as well as between government and the population.
From BBC
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