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• n  a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

• A demonstration in front of the ESMA, a navy building where Argentines were tortured during the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
• Last June a politician's coup made Bulgaria a virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is.
• Would you consider citizens living under such realities as living in a 'dictatorship'?" .

• absolutism
• authoritarianism
• Caesarism
• despotism
• monocracy
• one-man rule
• shogunate
• Stalinism
• totalitarianism
• tyranny

News & Articles

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• Spanish Producer Elias Querejeta Dies at 78
  The man known simply as "The Producer" was a key figure during the country's transition from dictatorship to democracy and is credited with modernizing the Spanish film industry. read more        
  June 10, 2013 - The Hollywood Reporter

Quotes

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• President Bush in International Herald Tribune
  And it's not up to the politicians in Washington, DC, to say whether he will remain in his position,Bush said. "It is up to the Iraqi people who now live in a democracy and not a dictatorship."
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York Times
  We see that the government of Iran, the supreme leader, the president, the Parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship,Mrs. Clinton said.
• Benazir Bhutto in Guardian Unlimited
  To get Pakistan from the clutches of dictatorship, we are organizing a long march,Bhutto told around 100 journalists protesting the new media clampdown, which would impose jail time for those who criticize Musharraf or the army. "I request...