With thuggish violence and the customary spoils system for his family and military cronies, the superannuated revolutionary toyed with, and stifled, an earlier democratic spring.
ANA's reforming president, quit in frustration in May when the airline's superannuated honorary chairman and existing chairman both former bureaucrats from the transport ministry blocked measures aimed at streamlining the company.
Managers who no longer have anyone to manage are fobbed off with inflated titles, much as superannuated politicians are made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Lord President of the Council.