Sentences with phrase «american dictatorship»

A Latin American dictatorship evokes memories of the late Harold Pinter.

Worryingly, it seems that as standards slip in the processing of immigration claims and the asylum backlog, the Home Office is making up for it with an increasingly militarised and bullying enforcement operation more reminiscent of a South American dictatorship than a leading western democracy.

Although Thomas did not oppose the CIO role in overturning the communist Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954, he totally rejected Rafael Trujillo's cruel and absolute dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and expressed grave concern about the United States's general failure to oppose right - wing Latin American dictatorships.

John Dinges puts the Pinochet regime into an international perspective and signals again the need for atonement for the many versions of Villa Grimaldi that the U.S. quietly ignored during the highly repressive Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s.

These women reached the peak of their careers during the various South American dictatorships of the second half of the 20th century and many took part in left - wing resistance efforts.

The 120 artists included in this show made moving, incisive, funny, and daring work; often, they protested the various South American dictatorships and sexist climates under which they lived.

It could also commemorate those who fled the (non-communist) governments of Chile, Argentina, and other right - wing Latin American dictatorships.

Not exact matches

CARACAS A group of Venezuelan rock bands hope to popularize songs against President Nicolas Maduro by handing out a CD called «Rock Against Dictatorship» during a summit of Latin American and North American countries in Lima this week.

Torture (and that's what the «enhanced interrogation techniques» amount to, even if it is not torture as heinous as that routinely practiced by dictatorships) is definitely not an «American value.»

Can it be that power corrupts people to the point that — no matter their philosophy — they behave in very similar ways: denial, anger, dictatorship (of business or church), avoidance by attacking, creating enemies for the sake of gaining unity, and each promising to «make American (or Christianity) great again»?

Americans are getting tired Islam's dictatorship in the countries they rule and the lack of human rights.

Muslims will NEVER be Americans!!!! They don't have the capacity to understand freedom and democracy!!!! Only through Jesus can anyone understand the concept of freedom!!!! There's a reason why all of the free nations in the world are Christian and all of the dictatorships are Muslim or communist (atheist)!!!!

During the twentieth century we have seen dictatorships arise not only in Germany, Italy, Russia and China but also in South American countries and in the new states of Africa and Asia.

Nonetheless, military coups, however decorous, are not part of the American tradition, nor that of the officer corps, which might well worry about how the citizenry would react to a move toward open military dictatorship.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

the right to defend oneself is the reason their is right to bear arms and don't need to relyon gov «t - that is freedom american's seem to forget and main difference america and many military states and dictatorship gov» t in many countries.

As Americans we want to foster democracies, not dictatorships; deal fairly with sovereign nations and treat them as friends, not subjects; respect our neighbors more than our corporate markets; and create jobs, not food dependencies.

Americans and citizens across the world raised money to help Haitians rebuild their country, one ravaged by colonialism, dictatorship, poverty, and foreign political interference even before the earthquake.

Dictatorship and poverty are not preconditions of American support for Latin American regimes, but they are commonly the side - effects.

It's why dictatorships so often put a frenzied focus on the individual, from the national insanity of North Korea to the emotional pull of Latin American generals.

Although the dictatorship regimes in both of these countries were swiftly ended by British and American troops, the remaining British forces were not withdrawn from Iraq until 2009 and not from Afghanistan until 2014.

The film is set in a recently - turned - democratic South American country where the terror of former dictatorship still lingers.

From 1976 to 1983, the South American country of Argentina was governed by a military dictatorship under the title of the National Reorganization Process.

9/11, George Bush, South American politics, corporate greed (yes, couched in a sequel no one wanted) and dictatorships all loomed in the frames of his films, but what many people may have forgotten is that Stone can deliver pure genre material with a great sense of humor and flair.

Paulina Escobar (Sigourney Weaver) is the well - to - do wife of a lawyer (Stuart Wilson's Gerardo Escobar) who has recently been appointed to head up an investigation into human rights violations perpetrated by the former dictatorship of their anonymous Latin American country.

She is the author of Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles (Duke University Press, 2012), which received the 2013 Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art.

The political body, a key concept of the exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 - 1985, is bound by the poetics of subjectivity, shaped by desire, and disobedient and resistant in the face of political turmoil such as oppression, violence, and dictatorship.

His work has been included in group exhibitions such as Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2013); The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2012); 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (2008); 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia (2008); 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, Panama (2008); Freedom, Hague Sculpture Center, the Netherlands (2008); Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2007); 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2004); and the Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy (2003).

I do not live in China, never have, never have even set foot in China, and never will as long as the communists rule that country like a USSR - style dictatorship (despite the fashionable Shanghai shop window displays and the excellent movies from Chinese directors there... but I do live in TAIWAN, an island nation 100 miles off the coast of communist China, ahd I have been studying the Chicoms (as they are called — Chinese communists) for more than 10 years and reading their English propaganda newspapers online, like the People's Daily (go look) and this is important for Americans to hear:

As The New American has been reporting since last year, the UN and its member governments and dictatorships are frantically hoping to secure a planetary «climate» regime next year at a global - warming summit in Paris.

«This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense,» the meme said alongside an image of Cuban - American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.