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noun, feminine

dictablanda

/diɡtaˈblanda/

noun, feminine/diɡtaˈblanda/plural: dictablandas

a soft-handed dictatorship

[…], durante la dictablanda que sucedió a la dictatura de Primo de Rivera.[…] , during the soft-handed dictatorship that followed Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship.

Wordplay on dictadura, reanalyzing the suffix -dura as the word dura (“hard”) and replacing it with blanda (“soft”). Compare Portuguese ditabranda.