Sentences with phrase «year dictatorship»

In September 1973, Chilean folk singer and political activist Víctor Jara was murdered in the wake of the military coup which ushered in Chile's 17 - year dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet.

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.

Catalonia has talked of separation from Spain since the founding of Estat Català — a political movement which began in 1922 - and throughout the 36 - year dictatorship of Franco, however, the resurgence of the pro-secession movement over the past few years is due primarily to Spain's economic woes, a 2010 constitutional court decision to lessen Catalonia's sovereignty, and a distrust of Madrid or the centralized Spanish government.

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

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The Spanish Civil War and the 36 years of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship feature heavily in his discourse.

«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.

The self - belief that led Castro to think in 1956 that a ragtag band of rebels under his command could overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship within a couple of years was not that different to the «reality - distortion field» sometimes attributed to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Since achieving independence from the U.S - backed dictatorship in 1979, Nicaragua has had only three years of relative peace.

• A U.S. aid package to Nicaragua approved by the U.S. Congress in 1980, a year after the ouster of the U.S. - backed dictatorship, targeted the most reactionary business organization for substantial aid.

After twenty years of dictatorship and deviations from the rules of Islam, Mu`awiya got the confirmation of the people for Yazid, his son, as successor.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

In his scenario, the country fell under a military dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»).

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

Condor has taken on added significance in recent years as victims of the dictatorships, their families and foreign governments seek to bring torturers and killers to justice, beginning with Pinochet's 1998 temporary detention in England on a Spanish warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity.

I would love to see different formations, and tactics, being used at Arsenal, but it'll never happen in a million years under Wenger's dictatorship.

For example, if Saddam Hussein was really kind to the Iraqi people in the last few years of his leadership, would that make up for the years of his brutal dictatorship?

The only club in top 5 leagues in europe not to sign a single outfield player when it was clear that there were deficiencies in KEY areas.We are going to exit the champions league for a sixth successive year only at round 16 stage.The frenchman was waiting for the FA to be a scapegoat for was had already been a dump season.i can sense and feel that the REIGNS OF WENGER ARE COMING TO A CLOSURE and we will finally be free from the shackles of dictatorship!!!

Ex-Chelsea man Chris Sutton believes that Wenger has been allowed to continue his role without question as he is running a «dictatorship» at the Emirates Stadium and has slammed the 67 - year - old for not having the fans» interest at heart.

Clearly we're not going to be spending the next few years invading every tin pot dictatorship across the globe the second they left a finger against their own people, but we've set a precedent that others will quickly leap on as a pretext: you can imagine Russia claiming it has a responsibility to protect South Ossetia if there are ructions with Georgia again, just as China will if there's a violent uprising in Tibet.

In fact, this trial should only be the beginning, since it covers just two, albeit bloody, days in a period of state violence spanning weeks, and in a term of corrupt dictatorship lasting thirty years.

Speaking in Bolgatanga on day 1 of his 2 - day tour of the region, on Thursday, September 17, Nana Akufo - Addo stated Ghanaians, after years of dictatorship, have accepted multi-party democracy and will no longer tolerate acts aimed at cowing the citizenry into submission.

After forty years of dictatorship, the political landscape was far from settled, there was the official party of the dictatorship (the Falange), and the traditional - but again, illegal - Socialist and Communist parties, and nationalist parties and little else.

Another voter, Gurcan Hotoglu, said the outcome of the referendum could take the country back 200 years and «establish a dictatorship.»

«The majority of the refugees arriving on European shores in the last year have come from countries that are at war, in conflict or under dictatorship.»

«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.

It added, «The PDP no doubt, initiated several reforms that transformed the country from the decay of long years of military dictatorship / failed civilian administration and never resorted to self - pity, blame and propaganda as it's seen today.

There's been enough written about Livingstone over the years for me not to have to revisit much of it here, but suffice to say his council tax rises, flirtations with dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela, and mismanagement of City Hall mean he is unlikely to be the one to tell Ed Miliband to take a sensible policy option.

I graduated less than a year after the end of Nicolae Ceauşescu's dictatorship.

It is hard to bear that cinematographer Jorge Muller Silva was murdered by the Pinochet dictatorship one year after the coup d'état.

I'd been a big fan of the director's previous two pictures, «Tony Manero» and «Post Mortem,» dark, but quite different pictures that both looked at his nation in the years when it was being ruled by General Pinochet's dictatorship.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

His record in public service covers 45 years as a constitutional convention delegate, freedom fighter against dictatorship, ambassador, legislator and former Cabinet member under four Philippine presidents.

Over the past year, they have achieved stunning results, overturning dictatorships and sending waves of hope across regions and around the world.

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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.

Not to belabor the point, but this rig hit the streets the same year that the Gairy dictatorship in Grenada was overthrown by the New Jewel Movement.

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.

The beloved dictatorship simulator will return next year and will bring with it the gameplay and mechanics you would expect from the city - building series.

This is of particular importance in Portugal, as it has only been within the last forty years that the country was able to release itself from dictatorship in a brave and bloodless revolution.

Vigo, who lived through the years of the «Dirty War» (1974 - 83) and under severe dictatorship, was a constant critic of the system he endured, and his strong critique of Western capitalist culture is inherent throughout his work.

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.

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...

A foundational figure in Chilean poetry and conceptual art, Zurita is best known for his poetry interventions, and installations reference bodies that are absent yet omnipresent, often drawing on local figures and conditions of the early years of the Pinochet dictatorship.

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.

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.

From the last years of military dictatorship to the country's subsequent re-democratisation process, Brazilian post punk was instrumental in forging an experimentalist and yet popular public sphere.

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).

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

Timerman was imprisoned and tortured during that nation's years of dictatorship.

Raised in San Sebastian, Spain in the years following the Franco dictatorship — a time of political turmoil in which military tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets were common — their formative years were marked by chaos and emotional instability.