Dictators of the World

Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe is showing no signs of slowing - or stepping - down in his old age. In a week where he has publicall...

Finally! Some dictator news that doesn't involve Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez. Yesterday, the exiled former dictator of Paraguay General...

Are there no other dictators in the news lately? I almost feel that I'm being unfair to Fidel Castro, who spent his 80th birthday in a h...

One week after transferring power to his brother Raúl, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is still recuperating from surgery to repair intestinal ...

Could it be curtains for Castro? In an unprecendented move, Fidel Castro has temporarily ceded control of Cuba to his younger brother Raul ...

I've long since returned from vacation , but I've been terribly remiss in updating this blog. Then again, most of the world's d...

Galloway flirting with Uday Hussein When I admit to having an unhealthy interest in dictato...

I've found a wonderful blog covering the socio-economic conditions surrounding Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chave z (seen above, having put...

It's World Cup time again, and you know what that usually means? Europe and Brazil versus a smattering of the world's least democrat...

Well, someone's still got to believe in the struggle of the proletariat , right? The Marxists Internet Archive is a virtual treasure tr...

Courtesy of Reason Magazine's Hit and Run blog , links to articles by Ian Buruma and Christopher Hitchens at the Sunday Times (London) o...

Name: Nicolae Ceauşescu Born: January 26, 1918 in Scorniceşti , Romania Died: December 25, 1989 in Târgovişte , Romania Length of rule: July...

Name: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Born: Thessaloniki , Greece (formerly part of the Ottoman Empire ) 1881 Died: Istanbul , Turkey November 10...

Parade Magazine has their top 10 list of dictators , and now I have mine. I have created a sidebar with links to Wikipedia biographies corre...

Like any other international celebrities, dictators find themselves victims of the vicissitudes of fortune. Sometimes you're up, sometim...

What did Soviet strongman Josef Stalin and Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceauşescu have in common? They both loved a good joke! Well, not exac...

No matter how powerful a man is, his common destiny with other men is age, infirmity, and death. Reports from Jakarta state that Indonesia...

While the world is buzzing about the humanitarian nightmare in the Darfur region of Sudan , one man has curiously escaped much of the atten...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union , most Americans have given little thought to what happened with the corpse. After all, we won the co...

Today is the fourth anniversary of a referendum approving another five year term for Pakistani dictator Lt. General Pervez Musharraf . Mus...