Dictators of the World

After last weeks post featuring a video clip of Al Jazeera's interview with Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki , I would be remiss if I ...

OK, so this story is a few days old, but Kazakh dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev was on a state visit to Turkmenistan last week. I scoured t...

When Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chávez described Cuban strongman Fidel Castro as his "mentor", he really wasn't kidding. Lik...

The military strongman of Fiji , Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama , is alleging that the chief of the Australian Defense Force...

A new documentary called The Dictator Hunters is making its debut this week at the Toronto Film Festival. According to this article in th...

Riz Khan of Al Jazeera interviews Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki about accusations of sponsoring terror by the United States, and the l...

We all know the canard about the propensity of bad things to happen to good people. Well, thanks to fate's eternal perversions, good thi...

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is due to be released from his prison cell in Florida on Saturday, but he's leaving the fry...

I nearly spit out my coffee today when America's preeminent communist folksinger, Pete Seeger , finally admitted that, perhaps, Josef St...

You've got to hand it to non-governmental organizations for their unfailing ability to state the obvious months or years after everyone...

Could Albania be looking to turn the scars dictator Enver Hoxha left on the country into tourist attractions? This article quotes the hea...

And now, because of overwhelming demand by Dictators of the World readers, here's a photo of Russia's authoritarian president Vlad...

Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf still can't seem to catch a break. Indeed, since the creation of Dictators of the World , I haven...

Zimbabwe's octogenarian dictator Robert Mugabe has, apparently , decided that the current smoldering ruins of his nation's economy...

The eldest son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il , Kim Jong-nam , is rumored to have returned to North Korea from exile in China - a s...

Rumors swirled this week that the Cuban government would finally announce the death of longtime caudillo Fidel Castro . Frantic phone cal...

Dictators of the World will be on hiatus until August 27th while I vacation in lovely, crime free Rhode Island. In the meantime, please vis...

The military dictator of Fiji , Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama , today announced his intention to hold free elections in Ma...

Cuban caudillo Fidel Castro celebrated his 81st birthday yesterday , to the apparent yawning indifference of most of the world. Granted, ...

Just when you think Hugo Chávez's " Bolivarian Revolution " in Venezuela can't get any weirder, it does. Courtesy of The ...