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.