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Responding to dictatorship in poetry, prose, and drama. Pablo Neruda's poem "La United Fruit Company," which mocks Central American dictators who grow rich at the expense of native Indians. "Note 20," the Argentinian poet Juan Gelman's account of his son's disappearance. How dictators maintain power in Mario Vargas Llosa's 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat, based on Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Brazilian theater groups, like the Teatro de Arena, that responded to military dictatorship by telling stories of resistance and encouraging audiences to think critically.
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