Another that he was a "born-to-rule dictator".
My first overseas stint came in 1986 in Haiti, when I was sent to cover spreading street protests against the rule of dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier.
With the collapse of military rule under dictator Sani Abacha two years ago, and the introduction of democracy came the reemergence of longstanding tensions, particularly between the principally Muslim north and the non-Muslim (largely Christian and animist) south.
Sudan, then under the rule of dictator Gaafar Nimeiry, benefited from deals with UK businesses backed by the government when the country was an ally of the west during the cold war.
With the loss of its overseas empire throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, however, Spain was all but forgotten in world affairs, save for the three years that the ideologically charged Spanish Civil War (1936 39) put the country at the centre of the world's stage, only to become ever more insular and withdrawn during the four decades of rule by dictator Francisco Franco.
Birmingham Campaign Against an Elected Mayor claim that if appointed, the mayor would "rule as dictator", not be accountable for four years, and be getting paid more than £200,000.
However, Birmingham Campaign Against an Elected Mayor claim that if appointed, a mayor would "rule as dictator", not be accountable for four years, and receive a salary of more than £200,000 a year.
Birmingham Campaign Against an Elected Mayor claimed that if appointed, a mayor would "rule as dictator", not be accountable for four years and receive a salary of more than £200,000 a year.
Albania sustained widespread environmental damage during the tyrannical postwar rule of dictator Enver Hoxha, when a hellbent drive for industrialization expanded mining, energy and chemical production with little heed for the health consequences of unregulated development.
Does anybody think that rule by dictators, however benevolent, will last?
The crisis in the Arab world doesn't just reflect the Shia-Sunni schism inflamed by the Iraq occupation, but the continuing western-backed rule of dictators in both the Gulf and north Africa, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia.
