But when a dictator came to power in Somalia the relationship soured in the 1980s.
He recently unveiled a bust of the former Spanish dictator, Franco, in Marbella town hall.
In late Jan. 1991, Somali warlords toppled the government of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
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It endured a series of coups before a military dictator, Jerry Rawlings, took power in 1981.
Despite glaring contempt for world opinion, the Belarusian dictator is not completely independent of it.
He was referring to NATO's 2011 military intervention in Libya that helped oust dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
The Iraqi dictator's overriding aim, apart from keeping himself in power, is to sell oil again.
American officials have not recognized it since warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
Its target is Desi Bouterse, a former military dictator who leads the coalition's largest party.
One of his heroes was Huey Long (1893-1935), governor and would-be dictator of Louisiana.
Chile, when it made the transition to democracy, elected not to prosecute former dictator General Augusto Pinochet.
Chaplin wrote and starred The Great Dictator in 1940, playing two characters in his first talking movie.
There is no shortage of culprits: a dictator, a climatic anomaly, a cartel and an economic crisis.
In 1959, Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled to the Dominican Republic.
When the Indonesian dictator Suharto fell in 1998, his successor offered the Timorese a vote on independence.
Kidnappings and armed robberies have increased since a popular uprising ousted Egypt's long-ruling dictator, Hosni Mubarak, last year.
Following the toppling of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, experts said, Libya also suffers from lax security.
Mr. CRONKITE: But it would be 56 years before another European dictator would face a similar international court.
Mr Gonzalez's group are the political descendants of General Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's dictator for 35 years until 1989.
The Shah was a corrupt dictator who for 26 years suppressed the democratic opposition and brutalized political opponents.
Portuguese politician who became prime minister in 1932 and ruled as dictator until suffering a stroke in 1968.
Following the toppling of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, experts say Libya has suffered from lax security.
In 1911, after leading the revolution against dictator Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero assumed the office of president of Mexico.
Another dictator, the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has come to the rescue and paid the Belarusian debt to Gazprom.
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Perhaps, today, the former Iraqi dictator is still pondering the offer as he awaits trial in his Baghdad cell.
Pakistan's army, nine years after the death of General Zia ul-Haq, the last military dictator, is in cautious mood.
He ruled Bolivia as a dictator in the 1970s but is anxious now to be seen as a democrat.
Mrs Arroyo was no dictator, although many of her opponents said she would have liked to have been one.
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