Right-wing dictatorship
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A right-wing dictatorship is an authoritarian/dictatorship form of government that mixes big government and low levels of individual freedoms with right-wing policies. Two of the most famous dictatorships in world history include Chile, with a dictator who was more repressive, causing the death of 3,000 people; and Brazil, with five dictators, which was more lenient, leading to death of 400 people.
Right-wing dictators generally have a neoconservative orientation to a big government while still defending the free market and traditional social policies.
In Brazil, where the term "liberal" refers to the economic liberalism, these dictatorships were called "liberal fascism" by leftist students and academics.
It is also worth noting that there were no right-wing publications in Brazil during the dictatorial period and that the military allowed leftists to dominate cultural productions, although it fought left-wing guerrillas. The period is more correctly defined as a positivist technocracy, rather than a classic conservative or classic liberal regime. In the economy, the state was regulator and interventionist.[1][2]
Right-wing dictators[edit]
| Name | Country | Years in power |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miklós Horthy | Hungary | 1920–1944 | Served as Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, took power after about two years of instability and left-wing revolutions. Horthy was forced to resign by the Nazi German government due to refusing to cooperate with them, including with the Holocaust. |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | Portugal | 1932–1968 | Prime Minister of Portugal, appointed to the position and ruled as an authoritiarian leader until his Caudillo of Spain, as well as the prime minister for most of his rule. Was deposed after being injured and expected to die. |
| Francisco Franco | Spain | 1936–1975 | Caudillo of Spain, as well as the prime minister for most of his rule. Gained power during the Spanish Civil War, in which he led the nationalist/conservative/fascist alliance which defeated the republican/liberal/communist faction. Ruled until his death. |
| Humberto Castelo Branco | Brazil | 1964–1967 | President of Brazil. Gained power in a coup; abolished most opposition; subsequently appointed by congress. |
| Artur da Costa e Silva | Brazil | 1967–1969 | President of Brazil 1967-1969. Elected in 1966, but centralised power; closed the Congress; banned opposition; suspended free press. Decreed Institutional Act No. 5, described as "the most unconstitutional, anti-democratic, arbitrary, and repressive decree in Brazil's history." (ISBN 1-58322-545-5), p. 167. |
| Emílio Garrastazu Médici | Brazil | 1969–1974 | President of Brazil. Appointed by congress, but instituted a military government; suppressed press and opposition[3] |
| Augusto Pinochet | Chile | 1973–1990 | President of the Military Junta 1973-1974; Supreme Head of the Nation 1974; President of Chile 1974-1990. Gained power in a military intervention; suppressed Left Wing guerrillas; Implemented a New Constitution, reformed the Economy and gave his charge peacefully after an election. |
| Ernesto Geisel | Brazil | 1974-1979 | Congress-appointed President of Brazil. The fourth of the military dictators; party and union freedom were still inexistent during his term; had oppositionists like journalist Wladimir Herzog and factory worker Manoel Fiel Filho tortured and murdered. |
| João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo | Brazil | 1979-1985 | Congress-appointed President of Brazil. Society won some democratic measures these years, but there was still a major fraud during 1982 State government elections. His government was responsible for the 1983 bomb in the Riocentro. |
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