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Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier wants his former subjects to know how very sorry he is. In a frankly biz...

To date, I have said practically nothing about Iran's diminutive holocaust denying president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Surprisingly, nobody...

Yesterday, I took a look at Kim Jong-Il's insane plan to use kidnapping to improve North Korea's dismal propaganda movie industry. ...

It should come as no surprise that even dictators have hobbies, so it should come as no surprise that being a dictator allows one to pursue ...

People always say that if you live long enough, you'll see everything at least once. Today is one of those days, for today, I have come ...

The military dictator of Sudan , Omar al-Bashir , has declared that he's ready to declare a cease fire with rebels in Darfur at the st...

Thank heavens for the internet. First Stefan Landsberger took the time and care to create his archive of Chinese communist propaganda poster...

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...