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The "Free World" of 1980 Was a Joke

January 1980 roll call of the so-called "Free World": • Apartheid South Africa • Korea, weeks before the Gwangju massacre • Chiang Ching-kuo's Taiwan • Pinochet's Chile • Military junta Brazil • Luis García Meza's Bolivia • Stroessner's Paraguay And the funniest one: Turkey, classified as fully free, while the military had already announced multiple times it was about to stage a coup. Which it did, in September of that same year.
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In 1980, Venezuela was considered one of the freest countries in the world. Argentina was considered one of the most oppressive. Crazy how much can change in a generation.
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