Dictators of the World

What on earth were people expecting? The buzz leading up to today's meeting of the South African Development Community (SADC) centered...

The title of this entry, "si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more" translates as to "if in Rome, live in the Roman manner",...

Hugo Chávez has a problem. An extremely serious problem: if the price of oil is over $60 a barrel , why is the state owned oil company hav...

What's the first thing that would come to mind if you'd heard that the mayor of Jerusalem used the image of Adolf Hitler in an anti-...

Who's the greatest Portuguese of all time? Ferdinand Magellan ? Luís de Camões ? Henry the Navigator ? Vasco da Gama ? No, no, no, and n...

An estimated 10,000 people took to the streets of Minsk on Sunday to protest the increasingly authoritarian regime of Belarusian presiden...

Mao Anqing, the last remaining son of the late Chinese dictator Mao Zedong has died at age 84 . According to biographers, Mao had intended ...

HOT: Frank Bainimarama ( Fiji ) Since seizing power in a military coup last December, Commodore Frank Bainimarama endured a lot of indig...

Is Taiwan preparing to turn their back on founding father Chiang Kai-shek ? Recent statements by Taiwan's president Chen Shui Bian of ...

As a way to welcome my apparent new Lusophone visitors, I thought I'd get started with some news on a Portuguese speaking dictator. If ...

I think we need to have a talk with Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov . Mere months after winning a mockery of an election , most foreign observers...

Could Cuban dictator Fidel Castro be readying himself for making a political comeback ? After transferring his unlimited presidential auth...

At the risk of repeating myself, I've had just about enough of the world's instant outrage over Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe ....

After being linked from a Portuguese index , this blog has received over 100 Portuguese speaking visitors in one day. While extending a hear...

When I last wrote about Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf back in January, the verdict was " not hot ". Amazingly, it seems th...

Well now, that wasn't so hard, was it? Former Surinamese military dictator Dési Bouterse has finally apologized for his responsibili...

World leaders of nations stretching from Canada to New Zealand have issued indignant (if impotent) condemnations of Zimbabwean dictator Ro...

Hugo Chávez can't understand why nobody in Venezuela has any coffee to drink. " The government now controls the price of coffee -...

Could it be a case of someone taking negative political imagery too literally, or just literally enough? The grave of former Serbian dictat...

A court in Turkey has banned national access to YouTube following claims that a Greek video blogger had uploaded a video calling national ...