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- noun A
dictatorship funded bypetroleum exports.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even as we see the Venezuelan people go through a tragic fall from one of the leading democracies on the continent into a petro-dictatorship, it is not just the direct threat of Chavez to American interests that we should worry about.
Fernando Espuelas: Stop Hugo Chavez Before It's Too Late 2010
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Even as we see the Venezuelan people go through a tragic fall from one of the leading democracies on the continent into a petro-dictatorship, it is not just the direct threat of Chavez to American interests that we should worry about.
Fernando Espuelas: Stop Hugo Chavez Before It's Too Late Fernando Espuelas 2010
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Or perhaps Russia was just pissed off that it didn’t matter anymore and it doesn’t want to be just a tourism destination offering nature, art and kinship, much rather be a petro-dictatorship.
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