Right-wing dictatorship
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There are only two right-wing dictatorships in all of world history, one in Chile, with a dictator who was more repressive, causing the death of 3,000 people and another in Brazil, with five dictators, which was more lenient, leading to death of only 400 people.
Both dictators had a neoconservative orientation and to a big government, while defending the free market.
In Brazil, where the term "liberal" refers to the economic liberalism, these dictatorships were called "liberal fascism" by leftist students and academics.
Right-wing dictators
| Name | Country | Years in power |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humberto Castelo Branco | Brazil | 1964â1967 | President of Brazil. Gained power in a coup; abolished most opposition; subsequently appointed by congress. |
| Artur da Costa e Silva | Brazil | 1967â1969 | 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. |
| EmÃlio Garrastazu Médici | Brazil | 1969â1974 | President of Brazil. Appointed by congress, but instituted a military government; suppressed press and opposition[1] |
| Augusto Pinochet | Chile | 1973â1990 | Chairman of military junta 1973-1974; Supreme Head of the Nation 1974; President of Chile 1974-1990. Gained power in a coup; suppressed and exiled opposition; over 3000 "disappearances" and 28,000 tortured. |
| 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. |