Somebody posted this list. Could you please pick your most favorite US-supported dictator from this (partial) list?
Abacha, General Sani -- Nigeria
Amin, Idi -- Uganda
Banzer, Colonel Hugo -- Bolivia
Batista, Fulgencio -- Cuba
Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal -- Brunei
Botha, P.W. -- South Africa
Branco, General Humberto -- Brazil
Cedras, Raoul -- Haiti
Cerezo, Vinicio -- Guatemala
Chiang Kai-Shek -- Taiwan
Cordova, Roberto Suazo -- Honduras
Christiani, Alfredo -- El Salvador
Diem, Ngo Dihn -- Vietnam
Doe, General Samuel -- Liberia
Duvalier, Francois -- Haiti
Duvalier, Jean Claude-- Haiti
Fahd bin'Abdul-'Aziz, King -- Saudi Arabia
Franco, General Francisco -- Spain
Hassan II-- Morocco
Marcos, Ferdinand -- Philippines
Martinez, General Maximiliano Hernandez -- El Salvador
Mobutu Sese Seko -- Zaire
Noriega, General Manuel -- Panama
Ozal, Turgut -- Turkey
Pahlevi, Shah Mohammed Reza -- Iran
Papadopoulos, George -- Greece
Park Chung Hee -- South Korea
Pinochet, General Augusto -- Chile
Pol Pot-- Cambodia
Rabuka, General Sitiveni -- Fiji
Montt, General Efrain Rios -- Guatemala
Salassie, Halie -- Ethiopia
Salazar, Antonio de Oliveira -- Portugal
Somoza, Anastasio Jr. -- Nicaragua
Somoza, Anastasio, Sr. -- Nicaragua
Smith, Ian -- Rhodesia
Stroessner, Alfredo --Paraguay
Suharto, General -- Indonesia
Trujillo, Rafael Leonidas -- Dominican Republic
Videla, General Jorge Rafael -- Argentina
Zia Ul-Haq, Mohammed -- Pakistan
(Add Musharaff, Pervez -- Pakistan to the list if you like to) |
