Perón died in office a year later, and Parodi's own, worsening health (as well as a violent dictatorship) kept her in a low profile in subsequent years.

For the moment, however, the Vietnamese invasion had accomplished its purpose of deposing an unlamented and particularly violent dictatorship.

The film takes place in dark places, during the night, subways, basements, etc., and it is a clear metaphor for the violent dictatorship that ruled Argentina at that time, the self-styled National Reorganization Process (1976-1983).

And that "quiet diplomacy" is nothing less than the appeasement of a violent dictatorship.

Though France's expedition has generated some praise, it has also drawn attention at home and abroad to Paris's long dealings with a violent dictatorship accused of killing many of its opponents.

It is perhaps the best punishment for this violent dictatorship and the best gift that you could give the elected president of Burma, Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi.

Yet Eyadéma's rule, as Mr Meijer has pointed out, has come ever more to resemble an extremely violent dictatorship, and attempts are now being made to put it on a hereditary basis.

However, we cannot compel anyone to live in an undemocratic violent dictatorship.

But the 1990 law defined it in a way that could encompass virtually any illegal civilian use of weapons - even to resist a violent dictatorship or to fight alongside American troops.

The still rising tide of negative nationalism may in the near future produce a "Pinochet interlude" or even a violent and unpredictable dictatorship.