Sentences with phrase «during dictatorship»

«I got a map that showed what was to be flooded... [But] it was during the dictatorship, so no one could say or do anything.»

A Ford Falcon 78 lamp illuminates one of the walls, a lamp taken from a car model known in Argentina for being used by paramilitary government forces in kidnappings and «desaparecimientos» during the dictatorship.

The Chilean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale presents Chilean artists Paz Errázuriz (born 1944) and Lotty Rosenfeld (born 1943), both recognized for their artistic and political work during the dictatorship.

Meireles's artistic practice was shaped by the social and political conditions during the dictatorship of Brazil in the 1960s and «70s, and by the Neo-Concretist and avant - garde artists Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.

EFA Project Space presents Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship from January 27 through March 10, 2012.

I met you on my first trip back to Ethiopia, from where my family had emigrated during the dictatorship when I was two years old.

At a hearing last week, supporters of lifting the ban said the move is needed to help Libya rebuild global ties after decades of international sanctions during the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi.

Crossing the first border required a passport — banned during the dictatorship — a student visa, and a one - way ticket that cost the equivalent of my father's yearly income.

As a result, 43 children who had been abducted during the dictatorship were reunited with their surviving family members.

Not exact matches

During Spain's 35 - year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Barça fans were banned from singing Catalan songs.

Puigdemont would be not the first Catalan leader to govern the region from abroad — Josep Tarradellas also ran Catalonia while in exile in Paris from 1954 to 1977, during which time Spain was a dictatorship.

«They are coming as refugees and there will be a place for them in Uruguay if they want to bring their families,» said Mujica, who spent 14 years in prison before and during his country's 1973 - 1985 dictatorship.

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.

As church peace activists relentlessly chanted, during the Cold War America was often racist, indifferent to poverty, supported dictatorships, deployed nuclear weapons that could kill millions, and slew countless thousands in proxy wars.

During his homily at the Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice [for the election of the Roman Pontiff] on April 18, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger cautioned his fellow - cardinals that John Paul II's successor would have to deal with an emerging «dictatorship of relativism» throughout the western world: the use of coercive state power to impose an agenda of dramatic moral deconstruction on all of society.

Dictatorship that deny human rights such as to life and security have been more pronounced in the poor countries during the post World War II period.

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.

Vatican City (CNN)- The Vatican pushed back Friday against claims that Pope Francis failed to protect two fellow Jesuit priests who were kidnapped during Argentina's military dictatorship.

The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention centre used during the country's brutal dictatorship.

The base was used as a detention centre during the 1973 - 1990 dictatorship, during which around 40,000 people were killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons.

Leading around 150,000 people in prayer, Francis said the fertile green fields and snow - capped mountains of Araucania were both blessed by God and cursed by man, having been the site of «grave human rights violations» during General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 - 1990 dictatorship.

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.

This guy basically wants a dictatorship like it was during the Dark Ages and Crusades.

Pope Francis is to meet with two victims of Chile's military dictatorship during his upcoming trip and is not ruling out a private encounter with victims of clerical sex abuse.

The killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi during last Tuesday's attack on the U.S. mission has upset the delicate political transition from dictatorship to democracy that was unfolding here in Libya.

Similarly, there have been regular, severe economic crises, the most recent being in 2001 - 02, when the strain of over-indebtedness during periods of both dictatorship and democracy and IMF - backed neo-liberal policies pushed the country to major default, devaluation and 25 % unemployment.

«We are certainly descending into a deeper dictatorship trajectory than we have ever witnessed in our polity even during military interregnum.

It is worth noting however, that the period of dictatorships in East Asia, was during the Cold War when western allies were busy forming alliances as opposed to the situation now where they act as global watchdogs for human rights and respect for the rule of law.

During Argentina's military dictatorship, which ended in 1983, at least 9,000 civilians were murdered and more than 20,000 people «disappeared.»

AAAS sends forensic scientists to help identify skeletal remains from Argentina's military dictatorship during which over 20,000 people «disappeared.»

First used to help find children separated from their parents during Argentina's 1976 to 1983 military dictatorship, the approach has since identified human remains and victims of natural disasters and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The father has forgotten but the mother has not that Adi was preceded by a brother, Ramli, who was killed during the «communist» purge (the picture reiterates that anyone who didn't immediately fall in line with the military dictatorship was tarred with the same brush, regardless of political or religious affiliation)-- though «killed» somehow undersells his execution, a two - day ordeal that culminated in Ramli's castration.

Brazilian writer - director João Moreira Salles intercuts his mother's movies of a 1966 group tour in China during the inception of the most radical phase of the Cultural Revolution with archival footage from three other radical movements, all from 1968: The May uprisings in France; the brutal ending of the Prague Spring; and the brief rebellion in Brazil against the reigning military dictatorship.

Building on the Foundations During the heady global optimism of the 1990s, Fareed Zakaria observed that while many former Cold War era dictatorships were finally democratizing, they were not successfully transitioning to the liberal constitutional model, rather to a non-constitutional «illiberal» form of democratic governance.

Knowing that cars had to be designed by someone, that they did not just happen, motivated him to study industrial design at La Plata University, but student political activity during the years of the military dictatorship closed the school for three years.

During the 1970s, he formed an avant - garde group called infrarealism with other writers and poets in Mexico where he lived after leaving Chile when it fell under military dictatorship.

- Point de Vue (France) «In The Blue Line, Betancourt tells a love story — that of Julia and Theo — which also underscores the horror of political persecution and torture during the Argentinian dictatorship.

Images of tango dances, entwined couples, and beds emerged in the 1970s during his self - exile in Europe at the time of the Pinochet dictatorship.

She presents a collection of reconstructed and found objects informed by the individual stories of Republican exiles that fled Spain during the mass exodus in 1939 and first - hand accounts of those that remained during Franco's 36 - year dictatorship.

Born in 1932, while his country was still under Japanese colonization, he grew up during the Korean War that divided his country, and saw South Korea become a young and unstable democratic nation ruled by a military dictatorship.

Coming of age as an artist in the mid-to-late 1960s in Argentina, during the notoriously oppressive and violent dictatorship of Juan Carlos Ongania, Escandell joined the radical, political collective known as the Grupo de Arte Vanguardia in Rosario, after graduating from university there.

Suddenly the ironic pop idioms of the 1960s are an inadequate means for understanding Gross's practice, which occurred during the Brazilian dictatorship, when dead bodies routinely appeared in the streets.

This presentation, her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S., showcases selections from two bodies of work: La manzana de Adán (Adam's Apple) and Boxeadores (Boxers), both of which were made during the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which lasted from 1973 to 1990.

During the Chilean dictatorship that lasted from 1973 to 1990, Zurita published a trilogy of books — Purgatory, Anteparadise, and The New Life — and co-formed the art collective CADA (Colectivo de Acción de Arte) that used performance as an act of political resistance.

Raised in South Korea during the military dictatorship of Park Chung - hee, Ms. Lee began her career staging outlandish street performances in the late»80s.

Thus, Lauand successfully negotiated the development of Brazilian avant - garde tendencies after World War II ⎯ ⎯ including the influence and reception of Pop art and New Figuration in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the political disruption initiated during the military dictatorship ⎯ ⎯ continually buttressing Concretism's critical ideas while formulating her own meaningful intersections with notions of rupture.

In the 1980s and 1990s Valenzuela participated in important solo and group exhibitions including Chile Vive at the Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid (1987)-- one of the most significant group shows of Chilean art held during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship.

During the military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1973 and 1985, nearly 300 Uruguayans were victims of «forced disappearances».

During his recovery, he started thinking about Haitian political history and the way his difficult family narrative — he had relatives on opposing sides of the Duvalier dictatorship — fit within it.

During the military dictatorship in Greece (1967 - 1974), Caniaris» narrowing visual vocabulary came to signify the increasing constrictions of personal freedoms.