Word: dictatorship
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Since Exxon intends to stay in a country long after both the present government and its successor are gone, it must get along with any kind of regime, from right-wing dictatorship to left-wing populist to outright Communist (witness its Polish contract). Jamieson keeps on his office coffee table a handsome cigarette box presented to him by the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, a vehement foe of both the U.S. and capitalism. Jamieson notes that he has negotiated directly with the Shah of Iran...
...this foreign competition invaded markets at home and abroad and the U.S. began spending more money abroad than it was receiving. This balance of payments became serious with the escalation of the Indochina War in 1965. Now tens of billions of dollars flowed abroad to prop up the Saigon dictatorship...
...French weaponry to breakaway Biafra as to the fighting spirit of the Ibos. In Latin America, France has sold arms to nine nations (including 106 Mirage 5s to Argentina and 111 Mirage mcs to Brazil). Currently it is offering its Exocet antiship missile to both the left-wing military dictatorship of Peru and the right-wing military dictatorship of Chile...
...electoral college is a farce," declared Brazilian Presidential Candidate Ulysses Guimaràes. So, too, he might have added, was the whole presidential campaign. Guimaràes and his opposition Brazilian Democratic Movement Party never had a chance against the country's ruling military dictatorship and its candidate, General Ernesto Geisel. Though the generals tried to give the election the trappings of democracy, they had no intention of losing. Portly, white-haired Geisel was hand-picked last summer by Outgoing President General Emilio Medici...
...predecessors. That means a strict adherence to the junta's drive to make Brazil "the Japan of South America," a drive that last year resulted in an economic growth rate of 11.4%, one of the highest in the world. Brazilians are happy with the relative prosperity the military dictatorship has brought. Geisel has also indicated that he will take a hard line on civil liberties, which have been suspended since 1964, when the generals overthrew leftist President Joao Goulart, Brazil's last freely elected head of state. In a speech delivered shortly after his election, Geisel warned that...