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List of modern dictators
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Adolf Hitler really messed things up. Quite apart from the obvious, everything about Hitler has been villified, and in many cases conflated with other governments and rulers. Dictator, like Fascist, is a term that should never have been applied to anything much other than Hitler and Mussolini, not even Federico Franco, whose bid to take over Spain was ignored by all the major powers. They do not really care about dictatorship, or they would not have let him rule until his death in 1975. So it is all just a hoax to make themselves feel better about their equally absolute rule in the form of 'democracy'. So let me propose the first 'dictator' for this article: the Electoral college (WP) of the United States. Even if the elections were not rigged with voting machines that change votes to whoever designed the program wanted to win, or men in black with boxes of votes, the Electoral college will never allow a candidate that wants what is best to win
The closest the United States has ever come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress.[1] The presidential election of 1968 ended with Wikipedia:Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes to Wikipedia:Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had only received 511,944 more popular votes than Humphrey, equating to less than 1% of the national total. Wikipedia:George Wallace received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular vote.[2]
The following is a list of national leaders who were not democratically elected.
Missing from this list are monarchs, who should be added, the Reign of the Generals in Greece, anything to do with Gladio, and probably a lot more, considering the agenda that the word 'dictator' promotes. However, this list can be quite useful for getting started with seeing just how much of the world's history in the 20th century was directly controlled by the United States.
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Africa[edit]
The Americas[edit]
North America[edit]
| Name | Country | Came to power | Lost power | References for the term 'dictator' |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia:AgustÃn de Iturbide | Wikipedia:Mexico | 1822 | 1823 | |
| Wikipedia:Antonio López de Santa Anna | Wikipedia:Mexico | 1833 | 1855 | |
| Wikipedia:Porfirio DÃaz | Wikipedia:Mexico | 1879 | 1910 | [12] |
| Wikipedia:Victoriano Huerta | Wikipedia:Mexico | 1913 | 1914 | [13] |
Central America[edit]
South America[edit]
Caribbean[edit]
| Name | Country | Came to power | Lost power | References for the term 'dictator' |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia:Gerardo Machado | Wikipedia:Cuba | 1925 | 1933 | [26][27] |
| Wikipedia:Rafael Trujillo | Wikipedia:Dominican Republic | 1930 | 1961 | |
| Wikipedia:Paul Magloire | Wikipedia:Haiti | 1950 by coup | 1956 | |
| Wikipedia:Fulgencio Batista | Wikipedia:Cuba | 1952 by coup | 1959 | |
| Wikipedia:François Duvalier | Wikipedia:Haiti | 1957 elected | 1971 | |
| Wikipedia:Fidel Castro | Wikipedia:Cuba | 1959 | 2008 retired | [28][29][30] [31] |
| Wikipedia:Jean-Claude Duvalier | Wikipedia:Haiti | 1971 succeeded father | 1986 | |
| Wikipedia:Eric Gairy | Wikipedia:Grenada | 1974 | 1979 | [32] [33] |
| Wikipedia:Raoul Cédras | Wikipedia:Haiti | 1991 by coup (de facto) | 1994 | [34] |
| Wikipedia:Raul Castro | Wikipedia:Cuba | 2006 | present | [35] [36] |
Asia[edit]
Western Asia ("Middle East")[edit]
Central Asia[edit]
| Name | Country | Came to power | Lost power | References for the term 'dictator' |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia:Mohammed Daoud Khan | Wikipedia:Afghanistan | 1973 by coup | 1978 by coup | |
| Wikipedia:Nur Muhammad Taraki | Wikipedia:Afghanistan | 1978 by coup | 1979 murdered | |
| Wikipedia:Hafizullah Amin | Wikipedia:Afghanistan | 1979 president murdered | 1979 country invaded | |
| Wikipedia:Burhanuddin Rabbani | Wikipedia:Afghanistan | 1992 | 1996 | |
| Wikipedia:Mohammed Omar | Wikipedia:Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | 1996 | 2001 | [38][39] |
South Asia[edit]
| Name | Country | Came to power | Lost power | References for the term 'dictator' |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayub Khan | Wikipedia:Pakistan | 1958 by coup | 1969 | [40][41] |
| Wikipedia:Yahya Khan | Wikipedia:Pakistan | 1969 | 1971 | [42][43][44] |
| Wikipedia:Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | Wikipedia:Pakistan | 1978 | 1988 | [45] |
| Wikipedia:Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Wikipedia:Maldives | 1978 | 2008 | |
| Wikipedia:Hossain Mohammad Ershad | Wikipedia:Bangladesh | 1982 by coup | 1990 All-party uprising | |
| Wikipedia:Pervez Musharraf | Wikipedia:Pakistan | 1999 by coup | 2008 |
Eastern Asia ("Far East")[edit]
Europe[edit]
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:List of fictional dictators
- Wikipedia:Constitutional crisis
- Wikipedia:Cult of personality
- Wikipedia:List of political leaders who held active military ranks in office
- Wikipedia:List of political leaders who suspended the constitution
- Wikipedia:List of successful coups d'état
- Wikipedia:President for Life
- Wikipedia:Single-party state
References[edit]
- ↑ For a more detailed account of the proposal to abolish the Electoral College read The Politics of Electoral College Reform by Lawrence D. Longley and Alan G. Braun (1972)
- ↑ 1968 Electoral College Results, National Archives and Records Administration
- ↑ In Search of Africa - Manthia Diawara | Harvard University Press
- ↑ BBC - Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 - Bembeya Jazz
- ↑ Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
- ↑ Africa Safari Holidays & African Safaris with Africa Odyssey
- ↑ The Central African Republic
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CENTRAL AFRICA, A FORFEIT DESTINY (archived from the original on 2007-10-14).
- ↑ "Mobutu Sese Seko, 66, Longtime Dictator of Zaire". The New York Times. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/090897obit-mobutu.html.
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- ↑ MAR | Data | Chronology for Ewe in Togo
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_modern_dictators#Muammar_Gaddafi
- ↑ Gamel, Kim; Keath, Lee.. Muammar Gaddafi Dead: Libya Dictator Maddened West, Captured, Killed In Sirte. The Huffington Post. URL accessed on 8 June 2012.
- ↑ Reuters Muammar Gaddafi dead: Former Libyan dictator found hiding in a sewer waving a golden gun. National Post. Postmedia Network Inc. URL accessed on 8 June 2012.
- ↑ Manuel Estrada Cabrera (president of Guatemala) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ Estrada Cabrera, Manuel - MSN Encarta. Archived from source 2009-10-31.
- ↑ Masters of War: Latin America and United States Aggression from the Cuban Revolution through the Clinton years, p. 114 (ISBN 1-58322-545-5): "During this second term (1972-1975) López governed without a congress and by decree."
- ↑ Manuel Noriega (Panamanian military leader) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ Manuel Noriega - MSN Encarta. Archived from source 2009-11-01.
- ↑ 404 | MiamiHerald.com
- ↑ "Colombia", Wikipedia:Microsoft Encarta 2003. Archived 2009-11-01.
- ↑ Juan Vicente Gomez (Venezuelan dictator) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ Scott, A. O. (7 February 2005). "We're Sorry". The New York Times. http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=156078. Retrieved May 8, 2010. </li>
- ↑ Juan Vicente Gomez - MSN Encarta. Archived from source 2009-10-31.
- ↑ cache:0PFM13qC39YJ:www.ablongman.com/history_rh_bridge/assets/0321025865_ch15.pdf "Italian dictator Benito Mussolini" - Google Scholar
- ↑ Greenwood Publishing Group doi:10.1336/0275979377
- ↑ Miguel Primo de Rivera (Spanish dictator) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ Primo de Rivera, Miguel , The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (archived from the original on 2000-08-23).
- ↑ Primo de Rivera - MSN Encarta. Archived from source 2009-11-01.
- ↑ Joseph Stalin (prime minister of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- ↑ Stalin - MSN Encarta. Archived from source 2009-11-01.
- ↑ Commanding Heights : Joseph Stalin | on PBS
- ↑ Albanian Information - Albanian.com
- ↑ The Kingdom of Talossa
- ↑ A short history of Albania (archived from the original on 2004-11-13).
- ↑ cache:wEZn53dBGtoJ:www.gla.ac.uk/departments/dcees/Duvold.pdf Antanas Smetona "dictatorship" - Google Scholar
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- ↑ Kriza Titova režima i Titove Jugoslavije - Ilija Jukić - Google Knjige
- ↑ Payne, Stanley G. (11 January 2011). Spain: A Unique History, p. 227, Univ of Wisconsin Press. URL accessed 4 August 2011.
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