Sentences with phrase «military dictatorship»

And until January 2012 it was one of the continent's most impressive democracies, having turned itself around after a period of military dictatorship in the early 1990s.

«As one of the founders of Nigeria's democracy, the President affirms that Ekwueme played a major role in mobilising the group of 34 eminent Nigerians in the 1990s, who moved against all odds in opposing military dictatorship in the country and enabled the foundation of a liberal and inclusive leadership structure.

The region's growth has also been slowed by military dictatorships and social revolutions in the 20th century.

Emerging as an artist at a time when South Korea was transitioning from military dictatorship to democracy, Bul has used her practice to reflect on idealised utopias — and their inevitable failure.

The exhibition takes its title borrowed from a controversial work by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles done in the context of the Brazilian military dictatorship in 1970.

While Francis never had to deal with the abuse crisis in his native Argentina, he is intimately familiar with the region's experience with military dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s.

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.

For Oiticica, leisure — sheer fun — was an ethical imperative, a joyful protest against the oppressive realities of life in his home country, which had been under military dictatorship since 1964.

More recently, the main beneficiaries have been multinational corporations, many of whom also profited under the region's brutal US backed military dictatorships of the 1960s — 1980s.

A 2002 lawsuit, Kiobel v. Shell, alleges that Shell «aided and abetted» the Nigerian military dictatorship in committing severe human rights abuses against members of the Ogoni people who were involved in a nonviolent movement to stop it from drilling for oil in their rich Niger River Delta homeland.

watch how the Zionazis are trashing this Jew for showing a little sympathy to the victims of Israeli military dictatorship and occupation / colonization in the UN-recognized state of Palestine.

Such democratic forms and human rights as had existed are weakened, and in most cases military dictatorships are established.

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.

In many countries it's illegal because the populace would be too powerful and overthrow their tryannical and military dictatorship gov «t.

«It's a tough government that will back you up if you've got the money, a government along the lines of a Spanish military dictatorship.

The Bush and Blair governments tacitly supported Mubarak's Egypt and Sharif's Pakistan, although they were both essentially restrictive military dictatorships, seen as a less evil bulwark against radical Islam.

Burma has been ruled by an oppressive military dictatorship since 1962.

The Governor noted that Ekwueme was one of the architects of the democracy we now enjoy, being a prominent member of a group of 38 elders who stood firmly to confront military dictatorship and demanded the exit of the soldiers from government.

When OPEC shut off oil supplies, the Brazilian military dictatorship began the push for one of the most successful biofuel industries in the world

The one exception is the deliberately lunatic portrait of Uganda's erratic President Idi Amin (Nonso Anozie), who elevated military dictatorship to a form of extravagant performance art.

The film focuses on a family of bears and symbolizes living under the Chilean military dictatorship.

The massive Sony hacking scandal spurred by the film's satirical take on Kim Jong - un and the North Korean military dictatorship spread anxiety over depictions of the reclusive and secretive state throughout Hollywood.

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.

Madero was kidnapped and killed, and Huerta claimed the presidency, establishing a harsh military dictatorship.

Finally, in 1948, iron - handed military dictatorships became the norm and dominated the country until 1979, although the country was nominally a republic.

A true military dictatorship, the Gorn are made up of billions of warriors ready to sacrifice themselves for their continuous march toward domination.

The old Empire, backed by the divine right of kings, was gone, replaced by a far weaker Roman - style military dictatorship... a dictatorship that had lost a war and fallen under High Elf control.

If it is the peak of the Cold War, competing military dictatorships?

This exhibition is centered around her 2012 travels to Burma with a close look at Burmese daily life, the historical issues in Myanmar and the improvement that came after military dictatorship ended in 2011 when Aung San Suu Kyi took over as Prime Minister.

Chaos, violence, resistance, utopia, struggle, hope, bloodshed, sorrow, darkness — those are the words that describe Argentina and South America as a whole in the years immediately before the long night of military dictatorship set in.

Harshly - cut 1960s wood reliefs by Carlos Colombino of Paraguay feature cosmonauts with Spanish conquistador - like helmets, from which tentacle feelers emerge — an unease that contrasts this future with the weight of history under an ongoing military dictatorship.

From the start, this São Paulo gallery has focused on artists who emerged from the era of Brazil's tumultuous military dictatorship of the 1970s and»80s.

Otherwise they will brook no UN interference in their wonderfully run countries, mostly military dictatorships.

Putatively governed by all of the countries that comprise the United Nations (which includes military dictatorships and Communist regimes with rather different expectations in this regard), it's really governed by no one.

An unlikely nation in the region to be convivial to new technology and innovation beyond state control is Thailand, which is currently in the throes of an ever - lengthening military dictatorship and associated power struggles.

Chile's military dictatorship lasted until 1990, Argentina's until 1983.

Take Rico Rodriguez on a truly wild ride to liberate Medici from military dictatorship.

Much of the 20th century saw periods of democracy followed by military dictatorships, the last and most brutal being from 1976 — 1983.

Brazil's history over the past century is intertwined with military dictatorship and populist governments with strong protectionist tendencies, including outdated economic ideologies that its leaders embraced for decades after the Second World War.

Argentina suffered under a brutal military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, and how the Church and Jesuits reacted to it has been in dispute ever since.

By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time, the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant brutality became a subject for Maiolino's work.

In the 1990s, Shell Oil enlisted the Nigerian military dictatorship to suppress opposition to Shell's oil operations.

«Acting President Osinbajo recalls how in 1999 General Abubakar successfully chaperoned the democratic transition from military rule in Nigeria, and commends his determination and forthright resolve that ended 16 years of military dictatorship», it reads.

A culture of tax evasion (and, more broadly, corruption) has flourished since the fall of Greece's military dictatorship in 1974.

Nationalized in 1957, the country's rail network suffered from two decades of military dictatorship that focused its efforts on promoting road transportation.