Dictators of the World

Part of what makes blogging about tyrants such a pleasure is reading the bizarre articles from dictatorships that have been either poorly or...

North Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il is rumored to be nearly incapacitated with a heart ailment ( as reported earlier here o...

Say hello to Chen Yan , a 51 year old woman from Mianyang , China determined to earn a living impersonating the late Mao Zedong . Apparentl...

This week has seen an overload of authoritarian irony. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, with a completely straight face, that...

The latest news is that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is apparently still alive, still looks old and feeble, and from the looks of the photo...

One of the only areas to elude the control of most of the world's dictators is that most mercurial of institutions: their own families. ...

Regarding Pakistani strongman General Pervez Musharraf , a recent story in the left-of-Trotskyist Indymedia inquires, " the US media ...

Dictators of the World reader Michael left a comment asking for more about North Korean dictator, the Dear Leader himself, Kim Jong-Il . ...

Against all odds, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has managed to win "re-election" in the non-existent race for the Presidency i...

There's still one month left to vote for the next dictator to receive a top 10 profile , but so far, the results aren't encouraging....

Slate.com reporter John Lancaster has traveled to the Maldives to find out if the sleepy Indian Ocean archipelago has become a tropical pa...

Thousands of people gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Sunday for a ceremony honoring the victims of the Red Terror on t...

Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chávez made good on his threat to shut down his nation's oldest television network on Sunday night, replacing...

Eritrea celebrated its 16th anniversary of independence from Ethiopia yesterday. Eritrea is also celebrating, if that's the right wor...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, as the joke goes, but perhaps he can feel a little better about one thing - he's been nam...

One of the great things about being a dictator is the concept that the state and the maximum leader are a united entity, aka, l'etat c...

HOT: Hugo Chávez ( Venezuela ) Caracas caudillo Hugo Chávez is licking his lips at his impending victory over his hated enemy, Radio Cara...

Let's pretend for a moment that you're the dictator of a country that has long since reached the point of political, economic and so...

Less than four months ago , I cynically implied that newly "elected" Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov would run the c...

"We are identical" - an elderly Chilean man confronts his startling resemblance to recently deceased dictator Augusto Pinochet . ...