List of capitalist dictators

Backed by the United States
Dictators backed by the United States (or, as some have called them, "Friendly Dictators") often rise to power through bloody CIA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other U.S. agencies. "Anti-communism" is their common battle cry and a common excuse for political repression.

Friendly Dictators usually grow rich, while their countries' economies go down the drain. U.S. tax dollars and U.S. backed loans have made billionaires of some; others are international drug dealers who also collect CIA paychecks. Rarely are they called to account for their crimes.


 * Chiang Kai-Shek, President of Taiwan
 * Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea
 * Park Chung Hee, President of South Korea
 * Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
 * Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq, President of Pakistan
 * Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
 * Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
 * P. W. Botha, President of South Africa
 * General Samuel Doe, President of Liberia
 * Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
 * Hassan Ii, King of Morocco
 * Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines
 * Sir Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei
 * General Sitiveni Rabuka, Commander of the Armed Forces of Fiji
 * General Suharto, President of Indonesia
 * Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, King of Kings
 * Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq
 * Antonio De Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal
 * General Francisco Franco, President of Spain
 * Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany
 * George Papadopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece
 * Turgut Ozal, Prime Minister of Turkey
 * Fulgencio Batista, President of Cuba
 * Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic
 * François & Jean Claude Duvalier, Presidents-for-Life of Haiti
 * Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, General of El Salvador
 * Alfredo Cristiani, President of El Salvador
 * Anastasio Somoza, Sr. and Jr., Presidents of Nicaragua
 * Sr. And Jr., General Efrain Rios Mont, Presidents of Guatemala
 * Vinicio Cerezo, President of Guatemala
 * Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala
 * Roberto Suazo Cordova, President of Honduras
 * General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Defense forces, Panama
 * General Humberto Branco, President of Brazil
 * Colonel Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia
 * General Jorge Rafael Videla, President of Argentina
 * Alfredo Stroessner, President-for-Life of Paraguay
 * General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile

Others

 * Hirohito
 * Takugawa
 * Jiang Zemin
 * Musharraf
 * Zai Ul-Haq
 * King Fahd
 * Nicholas the Great
 * Catherine the Great
 * George Papadopoulos