Assertion: dictatorship's country | /r/HasProperty | governed by oligarchical groups
Facets:
value: because of public ignorance
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: But because of public ignorance -- even today 70 percent of the Portuguese are illiterate -- the country was governed by oligarchical groups, which manipulated the suffrage as they pleased and regarded office only as a series of substantial sinecures, the fat booty of political warfare.