The defining attribute of a dictatorship, as well as of kingship ... in a civil war that ended with Charles’ execution and Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth. After the monarchy was restored ...

The Cavaliers lost, the Roundheads won, King Charles I was executed in 1649, and what followed was rule by Parliament, then a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell. The winners sought a more ...

His current status, perhaps a little paradoxically, is largely the result of the government-led deal with the military-tech ... of absolute monarchy or dictatorship is a function of the skills of just ...

this time focusing on civil engineer and former politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), his wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres), and their five children during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Towards the end of “I’m Still Here”, a Brazilian film set during the country’s military dictatorship, a photographer tells his subjects—a woman and her five children—not to smile.

While millions of Brazilians love the story for its long-overdue truth-telling about the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, others see it as left-wing propaganda. Paiva has been dismayed ...

Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil's military dictatorship, I'm Still Here is up for three major awards – and could pull off an upset on the night. When the ...

The accusations, laid out in a 272-page indictment, suggest that Brazil came strikingly close to plunging back into, in effect, a military dictatorship nearly four decades into its modern democracy.

John Oliver, host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO, is a 21-time Emmy winner. But he still remembers how frequently he bombed as a young comedian in the U.K. When he was starting out, Oliver used to ...