dictatorship
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Figueiredo -- grandson of the last general to preside over Brazil during the 1964-1985 dictatorship -- said that Ramagem's immigration status was legal, and that he has a pending asylum application.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Mr. McGovern has long wanted to treat the military dictatorship like a normal government.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
In almost every movie about life under a dictatorship, there is a scene where the security services order someone to “show me your papers.”
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
“It was a dictatorship that worked from a perspective of building certain legitimacy, keeping the congress functioning, but of course, after purging dissent,” explains the Brazilian historian.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
Now that the dictatorship had been toppled, he had become interested in his country's fate again.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing dictatorship
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