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	<description>As honest as a gambling man can be</description>
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		<title>By: Javier</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-60041</link>
		<dc:creator>Javier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It´s great. Look at my private colection in: 
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3520267&amp;l=25d673a9f8&amp;id=600555228

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It´s great. Look at my private colection in:<br />
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<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: manny</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59876</link>
		<dc:creator>manny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regarding Batista
Yes I read the first paragraph.  Batista was democratically elected the fist time.  To the standard of an election of the 1940&#039;s in latin america he was&#039;nt so bad.

It should be noted that Cuba had one of the highest living standards and despite the dictatorship, had much more free press than and ability to organize political movements than it has since Fidel Castro took power. 70 newspapers in 1957.. 3 today all state run. Cuban civil society had more freedom 50 years ago than it does today.

 Batista released FIdel Castro and his rebels proving that Batista showed more mercy than Fidel. How many people has Fidel Killed..Including CHE?

 Castro though not an apparent friend of the US.  It perhaps the oldest living CIA agent in the world. I mean think about it they&#039;ve been involved in every Latin American conflict..for othe past 50 years and the US never got rid of him... Why have a  shitty island when you can have the resources of Latin America and a &quot;guerilla&quot; psudo communist *Fidel Castro)  who studied in Catholic School all his life and comes from a wealthy family in Cuba... to now owning Cuba as his plantation... and making bank with all the money he&#039;s stolen, recieved from the USSR and the USA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding Batista<br />
Yes I read the first paragraph.  Batista was democratically elected the fist time.  To the standard of an election of the 1940&#8217;s in latin america he was&#8217;nt so bad.</p>
<p>It should be noted that Cuba had one of the highest living standards and despite the dictatorship, had much more free press than and ability to organize political movements than it has since Fidel Castro took power. 70 newspapers in 1957.. 3 today all state run. Cuban civil society had more freedom 50 years ago than it does today.</p>
<p> Batista released FIdel Castro and his rebels proving that Batista showed more mercy than Fidel. How many people has Fidel Killed..Including CHE?</p>
<p> Castro though not an apparent friend of the US.  It perhaps the oldest living CIA agent in the world. I mean think about it they&#8217;ve been involved in every Latin American conflict..for othe past 50 years and the US never got rid of him&#8230; Why have a  shitty island when you can have the resources of Latin America and a &#8220;guerilla&#8221; psudo communist *Fidel Castro)  who studied in Catholic School all his life and comes from a wealthy family in Cuba&#8230; to now owning Cuba as his plantation&#8230; and making bank with all the money he&#8217;s stolen, recieved from the USSR and the USA.</p>
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		<title>By: Mr. McLaren</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59816</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. McLaren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s pretty depressing the number of people who seem to think I authored the text here, despite the clear text in the first paragraph.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s pretty depressing the number of people who seem to think I authored the text here, despite the clear text in the first paragraph.</p>
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		<title>By: Pelses</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59808</link>
		<dc:creator>Pelses</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice post, but you made a mistake in number 33. Spain is not a republic, is a democratic monarchy</description>
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		<title>By: meneame.net</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59763</link>
		<dc:creator>meneame.net</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Dictadores Amistosos, de Bill Sienkiewicz [ENG]...&lt;/strong&gt;

El conocido dibujante e ilustrador Bill Sienkiewicz dibujó en 1989 una serie de cromos protagonizada por dictadores con los que el Gobierno de los USA había hecho tratos. Aquí la tenemos completa, incluyendo los textos. (Para los curiosos con prisa les...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Dictadores Amistosos, de Bill Sienkiewicz [ENG]&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>El conocido dibujante e ilustrador Bill Sienkiewicz dibujó en 1989 una serie de cromos protagonizada por dictadores con los que el Gobierno de los USA había hecho tratos. Aquí la tenemos completa, incluyendo los textos. (Para los curiosos con prisa les&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: chuza.org</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59761</link>
		<dc:creator>chuza.org</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Ditadores bos, os aliados dos EUA...&lt;/strong&gt;

Colección de cartas realizada a finais dos 80 para denunciar a dobre moral dos dirixentes estadounidenses e as súas alianzas con algúsn dos ditadores máis déspotas e sanguinarios do século XX. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Fulgencio Batista, Rafael L...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ditadores bos, os aliados dos EUA&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Colección de cartas realizada a finais dos 80 para denunciar a dobre moral dos dirixentes estadounidenses e as súas alianzas con algúsn dos ditadores máis déspotas e sanguinarios do século XX. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Fulgencio Batista, Rafael L&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Aurinko</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59760</link>
		<dc:creator>Aurinko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And Franco was NOT the president of Spain, but some sort of &#039;supreme commander&#039; who oppressed people during 40 years...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And Franco was NOT the president of Spain, but some sort of &#8217;supreme commander&#8217; who oppressed people during 40 years&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ÓsQar</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59759</link>
		<dc:creator>ÓsQar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regarding #33, the last sentence is terribly wrong: after Franco&#039;s death in 1975, Spain did not become a democratic republic as it was before our Civil War (1936-1939). Instead, the heir of the Spanish Royal family, John Charles of Bourbon, was APPOINTED by Franco as the next Head of State, ruling as a King.
Fortunately, King John Charles I allowed Spain to transit almost peacefully towards a &quot;democratic monarchy&quot; (if such thing is possible), and that&#039;s the political regime that we &quot;enjoy&quot; nowadays.
By the way, all crimes against Humankind perpetrated by Franco and his minions were forgotten by a shameful amnesty law, and that explains a lot of things about today&#039;s Spain.

Thanks for bringing all this up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding #33, the last sentence is terribly wrong: after Franco&#8217;s death in 1975, Spain did not become a democratic republic as it was before our Civil War (1936-1939). Instead, the heir of the Spanish Royal family, John Charles of Bourbon, was APPOINTED by Franco as the next Head of State, ruling as a King.<br />
Fortunately, King John Charles I allowed Spain to transit almost peacefully towards a &#8220;democratic monarchy&#8221; (if such thing is possible), and that&#8217;s the political regime that we &#8220;enjoy&#8221; nowadays.<br />
By the way, all crimes against Humankind perpetrated by Franco and his minions were forgotten by a shameful amnesty law, and that explains a lot of things about today&#8217;s Spain.</p>
<p>Thanks for bringing all this up!</p>
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		<title>By: Sienkiewicz: friendly dictators &#171; Comicopia</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59756</link>
		<dc:creator>Sienkiewicz: friendly dictators &#171; Comicopia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] McLaren postea en su blog una reproducción completa de la serie de 36 cromos Friendly dictators que Bill Sienkiewicz [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Journalista &#8211; the news weblog of The Comics Journal &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Sept. 8, 2009: Who took Robin&#8217;s virginity?</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-59753</link>
		<dc:creator>Journalista &#8211; the news weblog of The Comics Journal &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Sept. 8, 2009: Who took Robin&#8217;s virginity?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] [Art] Friendly Dictators trading cards Link: Chris McLaren [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Klimrie</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-57080</link>
		<dc:creator>Klimrie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know when the description on Samuel K. Doe was written but even if it was a long time ago, the accuracy has expired. Samuel K Doe was tortured and assassinated on September 9th 1990, and all the gruesome details were videotaped. Since he is dead, he obviously is no longer the President of Liberia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know when the description on Samuel K. Doe was written but even if it was a long time ago, the accuracy has expired. Samuel K Doe was tortured and assassinated on September 9th 1990, and all the gruesome details were videotaped. Since he is dead, he obviously is no longer the President of Liberia.</p>
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		<title>By: Homo Sum Blog Archive Friendly Dictators &#124; Shed Kits</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-56990</link>
		<dc:creator>Homo Sum Blog Archive Friendly Dictators &#124; Shed Kits</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Homo Sum Blog Archive Friendly Dictators   Posted by root 21 hours ago (http://www.chrismclaren.com)        At the time i wrote this comment there was one deck up on ebay raphael smith says homo sum is proudly powered by wordpress middot rss icon entries rss        Discuss&#160;  &#124;&#160; Bury &#124;&#160;    News &#124; homo sum blog archive friendly dictators [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Homo Sum Blog Archive Friendly Dictators   Posted by root 21 hours ago (<a href="http://www.chrismclaren.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chrismclaren.com</a>)        At the time i wrote this comment there was one deck up on ebay raphael smith says homo sum is proudly powered by wordpress middot rss icon entries rss        Discuss&nbsp;  |&nbsp; Bury |&nbsp;    News | homo sum blog archive friendly dictators [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Julian</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-54063</link>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They missed out Saddam Hussein, he was our buddy &#039;till he stepped out of line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They missed out Saddam Hussein, he was our buddy &#8217;till he stepped out of line.</p>
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		<title>By: Hotspur666</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-53756</link>
		<dc:creator>Hotspur666</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>100 millions dead from you communist skunks last century...

500 million raped and tortured to death by your buddies 
the sand monkeys muslims during the last millenia.

Conquering Islam is on the march again, and a consolation
is that the first one they eviscerate is all these communist 
sewer rats like you scumbags!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>100 millions dead from you communist skunks last century&#8230;</p>
<p>500 million raped and tortured to death by your buddies<br />
the sand monkeys muslims during the last millenia.</p>
<p>Conquering Islam is on the march again, and a consolation<br />
is that the first one they eviscerate is all these communist<br />
sewer rats like you scumbags!!!</p>
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		<title>By: Tatiana</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-53150</link>
		<dc:creator>Tatiana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great post hope to see some additional comments here :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great post hope to see some additional comments here <img src='http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Hero</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-51544</link>
		<dc:creator>Hero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Turgut Ozal was real S.O.B. If you know what i mean.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turgut Ozal was real S.O.B. If you know what i mean.</p>
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		<title>By: Ricardo Ciano</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-50941</link>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Ciano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 02:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Firstly, the biography on Dr. Salazar is one sided.

He was a National Catholicist because he governed accordingly to Pope Leo XVIII&#039;s encyclical &quot;rerum novarum&quot; and Pope Pius IX &quot;Quadragessimo Anno&quot;. He adopted a second state police (PIDE) like the one prior to him (GNR) that killed THOUSANDS of Catholics from 1910 to 1926.

He always thought of Mussolini&#039;s regime as a &quot;pagan regime&quot; where the supreme moral authority rested solely on the ruler. In Salazar&#039;s Portugal there was no cult around him. He was viewed as just another ruler that came along to save Portugal from the evils of politics and materialism. That is why most of the people in Portugal sought pleasure in the simple life, in the humble upbringing and in their Catholic faith, the only force against true tyranny (the one that opposed it&#039;s 900 year old nationalist and Catholic traditions....fascism, communism, nazism etc.). 

Salazar was not a racist. He believed that everyone should be bound to a social economic class but this inference was not made according to race. The white population was ironically enough more uneducated than the black and were largely the rural.

Salazar was not anti-semitist for his &quot;Mocidade Portuguesa&quot; under his orders gave Jewish refugees aid (despite being against them coming into the country because of the country&#039;s neutrality). There was serious threats by the Nazi regime for Portugal to give up the refugees. Salazar always denied of having them inside the country&#039;s border to the Germans.

Salazar had to defend the spread of Communism to Europe, Africa and Asia and the colonies facilitated this aim. He was a devout Roman Catholic that was pro-Vatican and NATO with regards to the threat that Communism posed to the rest of the world. Therefore, the war that Portugal had in Africa wasn&#039;t solely a colonial wauntry from the outside world, like a mother with her child and disciplined it as it always had been disciplined in the past. Salazar&#039;s naiveness was his own downfall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly, the biography on Dr. Salazar is one sided.</p>
<p>He was a National Catholicist because he governed accordingly to Pope Leo XVIII&#8217;s encyclical &#8220;rerum novarum&#8221; and Pope Pius IX &#8220;Quadragessimo Anno&#8221;. He adopted a second state police (PIDE) like the one prior to him (GNR) that killed THOUSANDS of Catholics from 1910 to 1926.</p>
<p>He always thought of Mussolini&#8217;s regime as a &#8220;pagan regime&#8221; where the supreme moral authority rested solely on the ruler. In Salazar&#8217;s Portugal there was no cult around him. He was viewed as just another ruler that came along to save Portugal from the evils of politics and materialism. That is why most of the people in Portugal sought pleasure in the simple life, in the humble upbringing and in their Catholic faith, the only force against true tyranny (the one that opposed it&#8217;s 900 year old nationalist and Catholic traditions&#8230;.fascism, communism, nazism etc.). </p>
<p>Salazar was not a racist. He believed that everyone should be bound to a social economic class but this inference was not made according to race. The white population was ironically enough more uneducated than the black and were largely the rural.</p>
<p>Salazar was not anti-semitist for his &#8220;Mocidade Portuguesa&#8221; under his orders gave Jewish refugees aid (despite being against them coming into the country because of the country&#8217;s neutrality). There was serious threats by the Nazi regime for Portugal to give up the refugees. Salazar always denied of having them inside the country&#8217;s border to the Germans.</p>
<p>Salazar had to defend the spread of Communism to Europe, Africa and Asia and the colonies facilitated this aim. He was a devout Roman Catholic that was pro-Vatican and NATO with regards to the threat that Communism posed to the rest of the world. Therefore, the war that Portugal had in Africa wasn&#8217;t solely a colonial wauntry from the outside world, like a mother with her child and disciplined it as it always had been disciplined in the past. Salazar&#8217;s naiveness was his own downfall.</p>
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		<title>By: Ricardo Ciano</title>
		<link>http://www.chrismclaren.com/blog/2006/08/03/friendly-dictators/comment-page-1/#comment-50940</link>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Ciano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 02:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Firstly, the biography on Dr. Salazar is not impartial.
He was a National Catholicist because he governed accordingly to Pope Leo XVIII&#039;s encyclical &quot;rerum novarum&quot; and Pope Pius IX &quot;Quadragessimo Anno&quot;. He adopted a second state police (PIDE) like the one prior to him (GNR) that killed THOUSANDS of Catholics from 1910 to 1926 during the first Republic.
He always thought of Mussolini&#039;s regime as a &quot;pagan regime&quot; where the supreme moral authority rested solely on the ruler. In Salazar&#039;s Portugal there was no cult around him. He was viewed as just another ruler that came along to save Portugal from the evils of politics and materialism. That is why most of the people in Portugal sought pleasure in the simple life, in the humble upbringing and in their Catholic faith, the only force against true tyranny (the one that opposed it&#039;s 900 year old nationalist and Catholic traditions....fascism, communism, nazism etc.). 
Salazar was not a racist. He believed that everyone should be bound to a social economic class but this inference was not made according to race. The white population was ironically enough more uneducated than the black and were largely the rural.
Salazar was not anti-semitist for his &quot;Mocidade Portuguesa&quot; under his orders gave Jewish refugees aid (despite being against them coming into the country because of the country&#039;s neutrality). There was serious threats by the Nazi regime for Portugal to give up the refugees. Salazar always denied of having them inside the country&#039;s border to the Germans.
Salazar had to defend the spread of Communism to Europe, Africa and Asia and the colonies facilitated this aim. He was a devout Roman Catholic that was pro-Vatican and NATO with regards to the threat that Communism posed to the rest of the world. Therefore, the war that Portugal had in Africa wasn&#039;t solely a colonial war, but a secularist war against Communist sectarian terrorists that were killing thousands of Black and White civilians and stealing their children to recruit them in Zaire. The Cold War was in fact a real threat.
Salazar&#039;s biggest mistake was in fact his naiveness that the regime would outlast him which wasn&#039;t the case. He also gave unlimited power to his secret police that, without his approval, went on spreading terror to the population (because of personal vendettas and interests). Portugal didn&#039;t have a death penalty. In the 1960s he was less engaged with the real world but he couldn&#039;t find the ideal successor and stepped down without doing so. Marcello Caetano (his successor) wasn&#039;t able to control the regime because he was a figure head: the PIDE ran the country well upon the Revolution. Even when Caetano renounced from power, the still went on assassinating people under the direct orders of their superiors within the delegation. The regime was split within from Salazar&#039;s later years to the Revolution of 1974. The regime lost its credibility because Salazar was naive to the situation that was going on beneath him. The state police ran the country from 1960s to the 70s. 
Salazar was a human being, a simple minded man that protected the country from the outside world, like a mother with her child and disciplined it as it always had been disciplined in the past. Salazar&#039;s naiveness was his own downfall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly, the biography on Dr. Salazar is not impartial.<br />
He was a National Catholicist because he governed accordingly to Pope Leo XVIII&#8217;s encyclical &#8220;rerum novarum&#8221; and Pope Pius IX &#8220;Quadragessimo Anno&#8221;. He adopted a second state police (PIDE) like the one prior to him (GNR) that killed THOUSANDS of Catholics from 1910 to 1926 during the first Republic.<br />
He always thought of Mussolini&#8217;s regime as a &#8220;pagan regime&#8221; where the supreme moral authority rested solely on the ruler. In Salazar&#8217;s Portugal there was no cult around him. He was viewed as just another ruler that came along to save Portugal from the evils of politics and materialism. That is why most of the people in Portugal sought pleasure in the simple life, in the humble upbringing and in their Catholic faith, the only force against true tyranny (the one that opposed it&#8217;s 900 year old nationalist and Catholic traditions&#8230;.fascism, communism, nazism etc.).<br />
Salazar was not a racist. He believed that everyone should be bound to a social economic class but this inference was not made according to race. The white population was ironically enough more uneducated than the black and were largely the rural.<br />
Salazar was not anti-semitist for his &#8220;Mocidade Portuguesa&#8221; under his orders gave Jewish refugees aid (despite being against them coming into the country because of the country&#8217;s neutrality). There was serious threats by the Nazi regime for Portugal to give up the refugees. Salazar always denied of having them inside the country&#8217;s border to the Germans.<br />
Salazar had to defend the spread of Communism to Europe, Africa and Asia and the colonies facilitated this aim. He was a devout Roman Catholic that was pro-Vatican and NATO with regards to the threat that Communism posed to the rest of the world. Therefore, the war that Portugal had in Africa wasn&#8217;t solely a colonial war, but a secularist war against Communist sectarian terrorists that were killing thousands of Black and White civilians and stealing their children to recruit them in Zaire. The Cold War was in fact a real threat.<br />
Salazar&#8217;s biggest mistake was in fact his naiveness that the regime would outlast him which wasn&#8217;t the case. He also gave unlimited power to his secret police that, without his approval, went on spreading terror to the population (because of personal vendettas and interests). Portugal didn&#8217;t have a death penalty. In the 1960s he was less engaged with the real world but he couldn&#8217;t find the ideal successor and stepped down without doing so. Marcello Caetano (his successor) wasn&#8217;t able to control the regime because he was a figure head: the PIDE ran the country well upon the Revolution. Even when Caetano renounced from power, the still went on assassinating people under the direct orders of their superiors within the delegation. The regime was split within from Salazar&#8217;s later years to the Revolution of 1974. The regime lost its credibility because Salazar was naive to the situation that was going on beneath him. The state police ran the country from 1960s to the 70s.<br />
Salazar was a human being, a simple minded man that protected the country from the outside world, like a mother with her child and disciplined it as it always had been disciplined in the past. Salazar&#8217;s naiveness was his own downfall.</p>
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		<title>By: JMacleod</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Papa Doc Duvalier did not actually declare himself president for life until the 1960s (1963, I think)
For the most penetrating view of the regime, read Papa Doc, Portrait of a Haitian Tyrant, by the noted British journalist John Marquis. This book, which was published last year, has been described as one of the best ever written about Haiti. Its prose is extremely evocative and captures the atmosphere of Port-au-Prince beautifully during the Magloire and early Duvalier years. A cracking read by a cracking writer!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Papa Doc Duvalier did not actually declare himself president for life until the 1960s (1963, I think)<br />
For the most penetrating view of the regime, read Papa Doc, Portrait of a Haitian Tyrant, by the noted British journalist John Marquis. This book, which was published last year, has been described as one of the best ever written about Haiti. Its prose is extremely evocative and captures the atmosphere of Port-au-Prince beautifully during the Magloire and early Duvalier years. A cracking read by a cracking writer!</p>
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		<title>By: Anti Greco</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anti Greco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;I loved that part...&lt;/strong&gt;

.....When President Lyndon Johnson offered a solution to the Greek Ambassador for the dispute between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, the Ambassador protested, saying the solution was unacceptable to the Greek parliament and constitution. Johnson replied, “Fuck your parliament and your constitution. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about demo­cracy, parliament and constitutions, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long.” And, indeed, they did not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>I loved that part&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;..When President Lyndon Johnson offered a solution to the Greek Ambassador for the dispute between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus, the Ambassador protested, saying the solution was unacceptable to the Greek parliament and constitution. Johnson replied, “Fuck your parliament and your constitution. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about demo­cracy, parliament and constitutions, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last very long.” And, indeed, they did not.</p>
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