Difference between revisions of "List of modern dictators"

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]] [[Wikipedia:Electoral college (United States)|(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 <u>never</u> 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 United States Congress|91st Congress]].<ref>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)</ref> [[United States presidential election, 1968|The presidential election of 1968]] ended with [[Richard Nixon]] receiving 301 electoral votes to [[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. [[George Wallace]] received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular vote.<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/scores.html#1968 ''1968 Electoral College Results''], National Archives and Records Administration</ref>

|[[Kwame Nkrumah]]

|[[Ghana]]

|[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]

|[[Egypt]]

|[[Anwar Sadat]]

|[[Egypt]]

|[[Ahmed Sékou Touré]]

|[[Guinea]]

|[[Modibo Keïta]]

|[[Mali]]

|[[Albert Kalonji]]

|[[South Kasai]]

|[[Moise Tshombe]]

|[[State of Katanga]]

|[[Joseph Kasa-Vubu]]

|[[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)]]

|[[David Dacko]]

|[[Central African Republic]]

|[[N'Garta Tombalbaye]]

|[[Chad]]

|[[Moktar Ould Daddah]]

|[[Mauritania]]

|[[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]]

|[[Côte d'Ivoire]]

|[[Milton Obote]]

|[[Uganda]]

|[[Hastings Kamuzu Banda]]

|[[Malawi]]

|[[Kenneth Kaunda]]

|[[Zambia]]

|[[Houari Boumediene]]

|[[Algeria]]

|[[Ian Smith]]

|[[Rhodesia]]

|[[Mobutu Sese Seko]]

|[[Zaire]]

|[[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]]

|[[Central African Empire]]

|[[C. Odumegwu Ojukwu]]

|[[Biafra]]

|[[Gnassingbé Eyadéma]]

|[[Togo]]

|[[Omar Bongo]]

|[[Gabon]]

|[[Francisco Macías Nguema]]

|[[Equatorial Guinea]]

|[[Moussa Traoré]]

|[[Mali]]

|[[Gaafar Nimeiry]]

|[[Sudan]]

|[[Siad Barre]]

|[[Somalia]]

|[[Muammar Gaddafi]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_modern_dictators#Muammar_Gaddafi</ref>

|[[Libya]]

|[[Idi Amin]]

|[[Uganda]]

|[[Mengistu Haile Mariam]]

|[[Ethiopia]]

|[[Kenneth Mopeli]]

|[[QwaQwa]]

|[[Mathieu Kérékou]]

|[[Benin]]

|[[Olusegun Obasanjo]]

|[[Nigeria]]

|[[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]]

|[[Burundi]]

|[[Lucas Mangope]]

|[[Bophuthatswana]]

|[[France-Albert René]]

|[[Seychelles]]

|[[Daniel arap Moi]]

|[[Kenya]]

|[[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]]

|[[Equatorial Guinea]]

|[[José Eduardo dos Santos]]

|[[Angola]]

|[[João Bernardo Vieira]]

|[[Guinea-Bissau]]

|[[Samuel K. Doe]]

|[[Liberia]]

|[[Robert Mugabe]]

|[[Zimbabwe]]

|[[Jerry Rawlings]]

|[[Ghana]]

|[[André Kolingba]]

|[[Central African Republic]]

|[[Hosni Mubarak]]

|[[Egypt]]

|[[Paul Biya]]

|[[Cameroon]]

|[[Hissène Habré]]

|[[Chad]]

|[[Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya]]

|[[Mauritania]]

|[[Ibrahim Babangida]]

|[[Nigeria]]

|[[Yoweri Museveni]]

|[[Uganda]]

|[[Blaise Compaoré]]

|[[Burkina Faso]]

|[[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]]

|[[Tunisia]]

|[[Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir]]

|[[Sudan]]

|[[Idriss Déby]]

|[[Chad]]

|[[Isaias Afewerki]]

|[[Eritrea]]

|[[Meles Zenawi]]

|[[Ethiopia]]

|[[Sani Abacha]]

|[[Nigeria]]

|[[Yahya Jammeh]]

|[[The Gambia]]

|[[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]]

|[[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]

|[[Charles G. Taylor]]

|[[Liberia]]

|[[Denis Sassou Nguesso]]

|[[Republic of the Congo]]

|[[Ismaïl Omar Guelleh]]

|[[Djibouti]]

|[[Paul Kagame]]

|[[Rwanda]]

|[[François Bozizé]]

|[[Central African Republic]]

|'''present'''

|[[Pierre Nkurunziza]]  

|[[Burundi]]  

|[[Ely Ould Mohamed Vall]]

|[[Mauritania]]

|[[Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz]]

|[[Mauritania]]

|[[Agustín de Iturbide]]

|[[Mexico]]

|[[Antonio López de Santa Anna]]

|[[Mexico]]

|[[Porfirio Díaz]]

|[[Mexico]]

|[[Victoriano Huerta]]

|[[Mexico]]

|[[José Santos Zelaya]]

|[[Nicaragua]]

|[[Manuel Estrada Cabrera]]

|[[Guatemala]]

|[[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]]

|[[El Salvador]]

|[[Jorge Ubico]]

|[[Guatemala]]

|[[Tiburcio Carías Andino]]

|[[Honduras]]

|[[Anastasio Somoza García]]

|[[Nicaragua]]

|[[Carlos Castillo Armas]]

|[[Guatemala]]

|[[Oswaldo López Arellano]]

|[[Honduras]]

|[[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]]

|[[Nicaragua]]

|[[Omar Torrijos]]

|[[Panama]]

|[[Kjell Laugerud García]]

|[[Guatemala]]

|[[Efraín Ríos Montt]]

|[[Guatemala]]

|[[Manuel Noriega]]

|[[Panama]]

|[[Cipriano Castro]]

|[[Venezuela]]

|[[Rafael Reyes]]

|[[Colombia]]

|<ref>"[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564636/Colombia.html Colombia]", [[Microsoft Encarta]] 2003. [http://www.webcitation.org/5kyWaeYYn Archived] 2009-11-01.</ref>

|[[Juan Vicente Gómez]]

|[[Venezuela]]

|[[Óscar Benavides]]

|[[Peru]]

|[[Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo]]

|[[Peru]]

|[[Carlos Ibáñez del Campo]]

|[[Chile]]

|[[Getúlio Vargas]]

|[[Brazil]]

|[[Gabriel Terra]]

|[[Uruguay]]

|[[Higinio Morínigo]]

|[[Paraguay]]

|[[Manuel A. Odría]]

|[[Peru]]

|[[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]]

|[[Venezuela]]

|[[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]]

|[[Colombia]]

|[[Alfredo Stroessner]]

|[[Paraguay]]

|[[René Barrientos]]

|[[Bolivia]]

|[[Forbes Burnham]]

|[[Guyana]]

|[[Hugo Banzer]]

|[[Bolivia]]

|[[Juan María Bordaberry]]

|[[Uruguay]]

|[[Augusto Pinochet]]

|[[Chile]]

|[[Luis García Meza Tejada]]

|[[Bolivia]]

|[[Dési Bouterse]]

|[[Suriname]]

|[[Gregorio Conrado Álvarez]]

|[[Uruguay]]

|[[Leopoldo Galtieri]]

|[[Argentina]]

|[[Gerardo Machado]]

|[[Cuba]]

|[[Rafael Trujillo]]

|[[Dominican Republic]]

|[[Paul Magloire]]

|[[Haiti]]

| [[Fulgencio Batista]]

|[[Cuba]]

|[[François Duvalier]]

|[[Haiti]]

|[[Fidel Castro]]

|[[Cuba]]

|[[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]

|[[Haiti]]

|[[Eric Gairy]]

|[[Grenada]]

|[[Raoul Cédras]]

|[[Haiti]]

|[[Raul Castro]]

|[[Cuba]]

|[[Abdul Karim Qassem]]

|[[Iraq]]

|[[Abdullah as-Sallal]]

|[[North Yemen]]

|1962 ''[[North Yemen Civil War|by civil war]]''

|[[Abdul Salam Arif]]

|[[Iraq]]

|[[Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi]]

|[[South Yemen]]

|[[Abdul Rahman al-Iryani]]

|[[North Yemen]]

|[[Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]]

|[[Iraq]]

|[[Salim Rubai Ali]]

|[[South Yemen]]

|[[Hafez al-Assad]]

|[[Syria]]

|[[Ibrahim al-Hamdi]]

|[[North Yemen]]

|[[Ahmad al-Ghashmi]]

|[[North Yemen]]

|[[Ali Nasir Muhammad]]

|[[South Yemen]]

|[[Abdul Fattah Ismail]]

|[[South Yemen]]

|[[Ali Abdullah Saleh]]

|[[North Yemen]], [[Yemen]]

|[[Saddam Hussein]]

|[[Iraq]]

|[[Ruhollah Khomeini]]

|[[Iran]]

|[[Ali Salim al-Beidh]]

|[[South Yemen]], [[Democratic Republic of Yemen]]

|[[Ali Khamenei]]

|[[Iran]]

|[[Bashar al-Assad]]

|[[Syria]]

|[[Mohammed Daoud Khan]]

|[[Afghanistan]]

|[[Nur Muhammad Taraki]]

|[[Afghanistan]]

|[[Hafizullah Amin]]

|[[Afghanistan]]

|1979 ''[[Operation Storm-333|country invaded]]''

|[[Burhanuddin Rabbani]]

|[[Afghanistan]]

|[[Mohammed Omar]]

|[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]

|[[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]]

|[[Pakistan]]  

|[[Yahya Khan]]

|[[Pakistan]]

|[[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]]

|[[Pakistan]]

|[[Maumoon Abdul Gayoom]]

|[[Maldives]]

|[[Hossain Mohammad Ershad]]

|[[Bangladesh]]

| [[Pervez Musharraf]]

|[[Pakistan]]

|[[Khorloogiyn Choybalsan]]

|[[Mongolia]]

|[[Kim Il-sung]]

|[[North Korea]]

|[[Syngman Rhee]]

|[[South Korea]]

|[[Sukarno]]

|[[Indonesia]]

|[[Mao Zedong]]

|[[China]]

|[[Chiang Kai-shek]]

|[[Republic of China]]

|[[Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal]]

|[[Mongolia]]

|[[Ho Chi Minh]]

|[[North Vietnam]]

|[[Park Chung Hee]]

|[[South Korea]]

|[[Ne Win]]

|[[Burma]]

|[[Thanom Kittikachorn]]

|[[Thailand]]

|[[Duong Van Minh]]

|[[South Vietnam]]

|1963 ''[[1963 South Vietnamese coup|by coup]]''

|1975 ''[[fall of Saigon|by invasion]]''

|[[Ferdinand Marcos]]

|[[Philippines]]

|1986 ''[[People Power Revolution|by revolution]]''

|[[Suharto]]

|[[Indonesia]]

|[[Pol Pot]]

|[[Cambodia]]

|[[Chun Doo Hwan]]

|[[South Korea]]

|[[Mahathir Mohamad]]

|[[Malaysia]]

|[[Than Shwe]]

|[[Myanmar]]

|[[Kim Jong-il]]

|[[North Korea]]

|[[Sonthi Boonyaratglin]]

|[[Thailand]]

|[[Kim Jong-un]]

|[[North Korea]]

| [[Miklós Horthy]]

|[[Hungary]]

| [[Benito Mussolini]]

|[[Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)|Italy]]

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| [[Aleksandar Tsankov]]

|[[Bulgaria]]

| [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]]

|[[Spain]]

| [[Joseph Stalin]]

|[[USSR]]

| [[Ahmet Bej Zogu]]

|[[Albania]]

| [[António Óscar Carmona]]

|[[Portugal]]

| [[Józef Piłsudski]]

|[[Poland]]

| [[Antanas Smetona]]

|[[Lithuania]]

| [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]

|[[Portugal]]

| [[Engelbert Dollfuss]]

|[[Austria]]

| [[Konstantin Päts]]

|[[Estonia]]

| [[Adolf Hitler]]

|[[Nazi Germany|Germany]]

| [[Kimon Georgiev]]

|[[Bulgaria]]