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Anastasio Somoza García is dictator of Nicaragua
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Rafael Trujillo resumed power in May of 1942. In reality, the president serving in between his terms, Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha, was a puppet of Trujillo, so he was never out of power. Trujillo relinquished the title of president to give the illusion of democracy in the Dominican Republic.
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Manuel Odría is dictator of Peru
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Marcos Pérez Jiménez is dictator of Venezuela.
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Paul Magloire is dictator of Haiti.
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Fulgencio Batista is dictator of Cuba.
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During Nixon's vice presidency, Cuba was in the midst of a revolution. Fidel Castro overthrew US-backed President Fulgencio Batista and turned Cuba into a Soviet-allied communist state. The US severed diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba.
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Richard Nixon was vice president under President Dwight Eisenhower.
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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is dictator of Colombia
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Carlos Castillo Armas is dictator of Guatemala
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Alfredo Stroessner is dictator of Paraguay.
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François Duvalier is dictator of Haiti.
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Fidel Castro is dictator of Chile
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Oswaldo López Arellano is dictator of Honduras
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René Barrientos is dictator of Bolivia
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Forbes Burnham is dictator of Guyana.
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Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza García's youngest son is dictator of Nicaragua.
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Artur da Costa e Silva is dictator of Brazil.
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Omar Torrijos is dictator of Panama
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Emílio Garrastazu Médici is dictator of Brazil
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President Richard Nixon was in office.
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Socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende was elected. He was the world's first democratically-elected Socialist executive leader.
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Argentina's dictator, Juan Carlos Onganía, is deposed following strikes in Córdoba. The coup places general Roberto Levingston as Argentina's president.
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Following more demonstrations in Córdoba, general Alejandro Lanusse replaces Levingston.
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Juan José Torres, Bolivia's socialist president was overthrown by Hugo Banzer, who became the nation's absolute leader until 1978. He was democratically elected for a 1997-2001 term.
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Hugo Banzer is dictator of Bolivia
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Jean-Claude Duvalier inherited the dictatorship of Haiti from his father.
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Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debalyle and his staff embezzled international aide funds meant for rebuilding after an earthquake and used it for their own wants.
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José María Velasco Ibarra, Ecuador's five-time president, was overthrown by general Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, who was dictator until 1976
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Juan María Bordaberry is dictator of Uruguay
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In September of 1973, Salvador Allende's socialist government is overthrown by a coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Allende was the first Marxist leader to be elected democratically in the world, but under his leadership, Chile's economy suffered. Pinochet was backed by the CIA, as the US was worried about Allende's leftist government. Allende died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September 11, 1973.
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Under Augusto Pinochet, Chile's economy strengthened. However, his staff violated many human rights.
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At a Christmas party in 1974, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a Socialist party, kidnapped Nicaraguan elites. In response, Somoza Debayle declared a national state of siege and violated many human rights as he fought back against the guerrillas.
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Ernesto Geisel is dictator of Brazil.
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Eric Gairy is dictator of Grenada