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dictatorship

noun as in absolute rule

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The duo met while studying journalism at the Universidad de Chile in the late 1980s, as the country transitioned from a dictatorship to a democracy.

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The 58-year-old was named as the prestigious prize's recipient in October, being praised for her efforts towards a "peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy".

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As the country’s ’70s-era military dictatorship wreaks havoc, decent people privately put up a complex resistance over years.

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Thousands of people demonstrated in Greece on Monday to commemorate a student uprising against a US-backed dictatorship that was brutally crushed in 1973.

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These were the final years of Franco's dictatorship before his death in 1975.

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