Puertegan Path to Socialism: Difference between revisions

The Puertegan way to socialism has always been an explicitly authoritarian and centralized ideology with Alférez stating "While we must learn from the mistakes of the last two administrations and not dip towards totalitarianism we must also not allow to the people to be able to completely stop the progress of our nation", in the early days of the ideology under Alférez public protest and free discourse was encouraged though there was limits placed on them, this changed under Sanhueza who cracked down on constitutionally guaranteed rights breaking up protests with often lethal force and detaining critics of the regime without any charges. This way of ruling sparked massive protests from the population during the last months of Sanhueza's reign with them providing an easy position for Torres to campaign on claiming he would restore civil liberties to the people. When Torres came to power he officially repealed the laws allowing the government to crack down on people's civil liberties and rights but over his rule of the country he's had laws implemented to allow him to once again undermine people's liberties such as their freedoms of speech and assembly as well as weaken any institutions that could have proven powerful such as the media, unions, and students creating what has been deemed by international observers as a form of {{wp|soft despotism}}.