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I put this list together about eight years ago when
everybody was saying "America supports freedom and democracy! F**k
yeah!" and posted it on the Usenet.
I've updated it recently; it's
not exhaustive, just the worst offenders.
Dictators Supported by the US
Africa
MOBUTU SESE SEKO
Dictator of Zaire
1965-1997
MOHAMMED SIAD BARRE
President/Dictator of Somalia
1969-1991
GEN. IBRAHIM BABANGIDA
Military Dictator/President of
Nigeria 1985-1993
GEN. SANI ABACHA
Dictator of Nigeria 1993-1998
HASTINGS
KAMUZU BANDA
Dictator of Malawi 1966-1994
LAURENT-DÉSIRÉ KABILA
President/Dictator
of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1997-2001
GNASSINGBE ETIENNE
EYADEMA
Dictator of Togo 1967-2005
FELIX HOUPHOUET-BOIGNY
Dictator/President
of the Ivory Coast 1960-1993
HASSAN II
King of Morocco 1961-1999
TEODORO
OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO
President/Dictator of Equatorial Guinea
1979-present
ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI
President-Prime
Minister/Dictator of Tunisia 1987-2011
ANWAR EL-SADAT
President/Dictator of
Egypt 1970-1981
HOSNI MUBARAK
President/Dictator of Egypt
1981-present
IAN SMITH
Prime Minister of Rhodesia (white minority
regime) 1965-1979
PIETER WILLEM BOTHA
Prime Minister of South
Africa (white minority regime) 1978-1984, President 1984-1989
DANIEL
ARAP MOI
President/Dictator of Kenya 1978-2002
HAILE SELASSIE (RAS
TAFARI)
Emperor of Ethiopia 1928-1974
WILLIAM J. S. TUBMAN
President/Dictator
of Liberia 1944-1971
SAMUEL KANYON DOE
Dictator of Liberia
1980-1990
Asia
MOHAMED SUHARTO
Dictator of
Indonesia 1966-1998
NGO DINH DIEM
President/Dictator of South
Vietnam 1955-1963
GEN. NGUYEN KHANH
Dictator of South Vietnam
1964-1965
NGUYEN CAO KY
Dictator of South Vietnam 1965-1967
GEN.
NGUYEN VAN THIEU
President/Dictator of South Vietnam 1967-1975
TRAN
THIEM KHIEM
Prime Minister of South Vietnam 1969-75
BAO DAI
Emperor
of Vietnam 1926-1945, chief of state 1949-1955
LEE KUAN YEW
Prime
Minister/Dictator of Singapore 1959-1990; behind-the scenes ruler since
then.
EMOMALI RAHMONOV
President/Dictator of Tajikistan
1992-present
NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV
President of Kazakhstan
1990-present
ISLAM A. KARIMOV
President/Dictator of Uzbekistan
1990-present
SAPARMURAD ATAYEVICH NIYAZOV
President/Dictator of
Turkmenistan 1990-2006
MARSHAL LUANG PIBUL SONGGRAM
Dictator of
Thailand 1948-1957
FIELD MARSHAL THANOM KITTIKACHORN
Prime
Minister/Dictator of Thailand 1957-58, 1963-1973
CHIANG KAI-SHEK
President/Dictator
(Nationalist) of China 1928-1949
President/Dictator of Taiwan
1949-1975
CHIANG CHING-KUO
President/Dicator of Taiwan 1978-1988;
Prime Minister 1972-1978
DENG XIAOPING
De facto ruler of China
from circa 1978 to the early 1990s
FERDINAND MARCOS
President/Dictator
of the Philippines 1965-1986
SYNGMAN RHEE
President/Dictator of
South Korea 1948-1960
GEN. PARK CHUNG HEE
President/Dictator of
South Korea 1962-1979
GEN. CHUN DOO HWAN
President/Dictator of
South Korea 1980-1988
SIR MUDA HASSANAL BOLKIAH
Sultan of Brunei
1967-present
GEN. LON NOL
Prime Minister/Dictator of Cambodia
1970-1975
POL POT
Dictator of Cambodia 1975-1979
MAJ. GEN.
SITIVENI RABUKA
Dictator of Fiji 1987-1999
ASKAR AKAYEV
President
of Kyrgyzstan 10/27/1990-2005
Europe
FRANCISCO FRANCO
Dictator
of Spain 1939-1975
ANTONIO SALAZAR DE OLIVEIRA
Dictator of
Portugal 1928-1968
COL. GEORGIOS PAPADOPOULOS
Prime
Minister/President/Dictator of Greece 1967-1973
Latin America
ANASTASIO
SOMOZA GARCIA
Dictator of Nicaragua 1937-1947, 1950-1956
ANASTASIO
"TACHITO" SOMOZA DEBAYLE
Dictator of Nicaragua 1967-1972, 1974-1979
MANUEL
ESTRADA CABRERA
Dictator of Guatemala 1898-1920
GEN. JORGE UBICO
CASTANEDA
Dictator of Guatemala 1931-1944
COL. CARLOS ENRIQUE
CASTILLO ARMAS
Dictator of Guatemala 1954-1957
GEN. JOSE MIGUEL
YDIGORAS FUENTES
President/Dictator of Guatemala 1958-1963
COL.
ENRIQUE PERALTA AZURDIA
Military Junta, Guatemala 1963-1966
COL.CARLOS
ARANA OSORIO
Dictator of Guatemala 1970-1974
GEN. FERNANDO ROMEO
LUCAS GARCIA
Dictator of Guatemala 1978-1982
GEN. JOSE EFRAIN RIOS
MONTT
Dictator of Guatemala 1982-1983
MARCO VINICIO CEREZO
ARÉVALO
President/Dictator of Guatemala 1986-1991
MAXIMILIANO
HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ
Dictator of El Salvador 1931-1944
COL. OSMIN
AGUIRRE Y SALINAS
Dictator of El Salvador 1944-1945
CIVILIAN-MILITARY
JUNTA, EL SALVADOR
1961-1962
COL. ARTURO ARMANDO MOLINA BARRAZA
Dictator
of El Salvador 1972-1977
JUNTA, EL SALVADOR
1979-1982
ALFREDO
FÉLIX CRISTIANI BUKARD
President/Dictator of El Salvador 1989-1994
TIBURCIO
CARIAS ANDINO
Dictator of Honduras 1932-1948
COL. OSWALDO LOPEZ
ARELLANO
Dictator of Honduras 1963-1975
ROBERTO SUAZO CORDOVA
President/Dictator
of Honduras 1982-1986
GEN. OMAR HERRERA-TORRIJOS
Dictator of
Panama 1969-1981
GEN. MANUEL ANTONIO MORENA NORIEGA
Dictator of
Panama 1982-1989
AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE
Dictator of Chile
1973-1990
GEN. JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA
Dictator of Argentina
1976-1981
COL. MARCOS PEREZ JIMENEZ
Dictator of Venezuela
1950-1958
GEN. ALFREDO STROESSNER
Dictator of Paraguay 1954-1989
ALBERTO
FUJIMORI
Dictator of Peru 1990-2000
FRANCOIS "PAPA DOC" DUVALIER
Dictator
of Haiti 1957-1971
JEAN-CLAUDE "BABY DOC" DUVALIER
Dictator of
Haiti 1971-1986
MILITARY JUNTA / LT. GEN. RAOUL CEDRAS, GEN. PHILIPPE
BIAMBY and LT. COL. MICHEL-JOSEPH FRANCO
Haiti 1991-1994
GEN.
RENE BARRIENTOS ORTUNO
President/Dictator of Bolivia 1964-1969
GEN.
HUGO BANZER SUAREZ
Dictator of Bolivia 1971-1978
DR. GETULIO
VARGAS
Dictator of Brazil 1930-1945, 1951-1954
GEN. HUMBERTO DE
ALENCAR CASTELLO BRANCO
Dictator of Brazil 1964-1967
CARLOS PRIO
SOCARRAS
Dictator of Cuba 1948-1952
FULGENCIO BATISTA
Dictator
of Cuba 1933-44, 1952-1959
GERARDO MACHADO MORALES
Dictator of
Cuba 1925-1933
RAFAEL LEONIDAS TRUJILLO
Dictator of the Dominican
Republic 1930-1961
Middle East
MOHAMMED REZA PAHLAVI
Shah
of Iran 1941-1979
SADDAM HUSSEIN
Dictator of Iraq 1969
(1979)-2003
GEN. MOHAMMED AYUB KHAN
President/Dictator of
Pakistan 1958-1969
GEN. AGHA MUHAMMAD YAHYA KHAN
President/Dictator
of Pakistan 1969-1971
GEN. MOHAMMAD ZIA UL-HAQ
President/Dictator
of Pakistan 1977-1988
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF
Dictator of Pakistan
1999-2008
ABDUL IBN HUSSEIN I
King of Jordan 1952-1999
TURGUT
ÖZAL
Prime Minister of Turkey 1983-1989, President 1989-1993
SHEIK
JABIR AL-AHMAD AL SABAH
Emir of Kuwait 1977-2006
Prime Minister
of Kuwait 1962-1963, 1965-1978
FAHD IBN ABDUL-AZIZ AL SAUD
King
and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia 1982-2005