Dictatorship

Between 1955-1961 occurred in Latin America, the successive fall of several dictators who ruled at that time in the region, most occurred after the ouster of dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Colombian. Around the same time I was at work one of the most renowned political cartoonists of Colombia, Hernando Turriago Riaño, highlight as ‘Chapete’
and who showed many of these events in the daily publication of his cartoons

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi and Fernando Leiva, eds. Democracy in Chile. The Legacy of September 11, 1973. Brighton, England and Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2005. ... This edited volume offers a rich assessment of the impact that ... America: Thirty Years after Chile's ...

During this workshop, devoted mainly to the imperium and the curiate law, I tried to show, through some scandalous affairs of the first century, how imperium worked and what the curiate law could do. I have thus examined the cases of the departure of Appius Claudius Pulcher, the triumph of Pomptinus, the election of Caesar to the dictatorship, and the manner in which the exceptional powers of Pompey in the East were voted. In conclusion, it seems that the curiate law remained essential for the vote of the imperium, even if it is defined by the Senate or by the people before the vote.

In light of today’s heated debates about Martial Law, the role of social media as a medium of discourse provides evidence for how textual data presented here is related to social structures.

This paper aims to employ a critical discourse analysis (CDA) on Martial Law and the problem posed by social dichotomies - that entirely polarizes political opinions thereby limiting the discourse by whose pro or anti-Marcos, by which taking a definite stance would necessarily have to associate one with being, viz being pro-Marcos with being pro-Duterte or a Dutertard while being anti-Marcos makes one a pro-Aquino or a Yellowtard who belongs to the Yellow Army.

Social media is a discursive system where social issues are enacted through textual discourse. This newly-emerging frontier where social practices develop offers possibilities as a field of study where linguistic techniques can be employed to analyse such data. In this paper, we set the context in the Philippines where reportedly 93% adult Filipinos are active online while being pegged as the top users of social media in the world as of 2015 (Pew Research Center report). Its accessibility makes the Philippines the world’s social media capital as it is one of the primary media of political discourse.

A properly-conducted research approach in this medium would bring to light the exhibited behavioral patterns that reflect the population’s stance on an issue such as Martial Law. Employing CDA grounded in Norman Fairclough’s assumptions as a research approach, this paper will analyse the underpinnings behind the relevance of social media to today’s historically-undermined discourse on Martial Law by exploring the problems posed by these set dichotomies.

Este capítulo describe las tres etapas principales del régimen de Stroessner: fase de consolidación (1954-1967); fase de expansión (1968-1981); y fase de descomposición (1982-1989), y las circunstancias de su caída. Posteriormente abarca los tres pilares del régimen: el Partido Colorado, las Fuerzas Armadas y el mismo Stroessner en su calidad de Jefe de Estado, Comandante en Jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas y Presidente Honorario del Partido Colorado. Se analiza cinco mecanismos cruciales que le permitieron mantenerse en el poder durante tanto tiempo: una fachada democrática, un sistema de represión eficaz, la corrupción institucionalizada, el uso de la ideología nacionalista, y el apoyo del gobierno de los Estados Unidos. Finalmente se intenta una caracterización del régimen y se hace mención de cuatro mitos acerca del régimen que continuaban siendo sorprendentemente vitales hasta fechas recientes.