When NATO was born in 1949, one of the nine signatories was Antonio de Olivarro de Salazar.
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This argument is a justification of NATO's "democracies" have no problem with dictatorships that serve their interests..
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NATO was not born out of the fight for democracy against dictatorship, but out of the defense of capitalism. Portugal's dictator Salazar signed the charter in April 1949. Faced with the USSR, the United States had to obtain from the regime the right to install military bases in the Azores.