- It is a dictatorial management system of the State, in which individual freedoms and the very existence of the individual is perceived as secondary to the power of the State.
- It is proclaimed supreme leader, is granted excessive and prolonged power within the system, and is often venerated in an almost religious way, especially after her death.
- Totalitarian regimes are usually governed by a single party that has full control of everything and that ends up merging with the State itself. Thus, party, government, armed forces and supreme leader operate as a single entity.
- It manages all aspects of civic life and does not have any internal controls regarding what it can do.
- Policies of censorship, social control and expropriation of private property are applied, so that the State can manage absolutely everything with a single criterion.
- Fundamental human rights and civil liberties are rarely fully respected in totalitarian regimes. In the name of justice or sovereignty or the party, any type of crime can be committed.
Luis Fernando Ruiz Valdez 