Represión in english
Repression
pronunciation: ripreʃən part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ripreʃən part of speech: noun
In gestures
represión = repression ; crackdown ; subjugation ; stifling ; clampdown (on).
Example: Public libraries must accept bureaucracy as an organisational form, but they can reduce bureaucratic repression and inefficiency.Example: As part of the worldwide revulsion against the fierce crackdown of peaceful dissidents now occurring in Cuba, the U.S. Congress has voted 414-0 to condemn the Cuban government for raiding 22 libraries.Example: For over 500 years, the state of libraries and librarianship has been a reliable measure of varying degrees of freedom and subjugation in these countries.Example: Tunisia continues to restrict its citizens' freedom of access to information through censorship and the stifling of freedom of expression on the Internet.Example: This is the latest in a series of clampdowns on peaceful demonstration as elections approach.more:
» represión intelectual = intellectual repression .
Example: A consequence of decades of intellectual repression in South Africa is the growth of organisations to counter the monopolisation of information.