For the role of General Idi Amin Dada, the dictator of Uganda in the nineteen-seventies, Forest Whitaker has transformed himself.
Fulgencio Batista, the dictator deposed by Castro who, by the way, was the only person of color to be president of Cuba, never boasted of anything resembling it.
" Howard Stern got Mr. Baron Cohen on Tuesday to appear on his radio show as himself, saying, "I mean, what am I going to ask the dictator?
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Last year, Libyan opposition forces trying to overthrow the dictator Moammar Gadhafi bought a sophisticated surveillance drone from a Canadian company for which they paid in the low six figures.
He has not previously given a formal interview to a British broadcaster, preferring instead to appear in character - Ali G, Borat, Bruno and now General Admiral Aladeen in The Dictator.
Widows' politics is especially eye-catching in the Philippines because of the personalities involved: the redoubtable Mrs Aquino and the well-heeled, indeed well-shod, Imelda Marcos, whose husband was the dictator Mrs Aquino deposed.
And among those who have gone is Imelda Marcos, widow of the dictator, who withdrew in what looks like a desperate attempt to win a presidential pardon from the victor for the corruption of which she has been convicted.
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Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.
The stunning brick and ceramic plaza, which is set in large park grounds and features a moat, bridges and tiled alcoves, has had a starring role in major films such as Lawrence of Arabia, the Star Wars trilogy and most recently The Dictator.
The Ethiopian authorities requested his extradition from South Africa, but the former dictator returned to Zimbabwe before the extradition proceedings began.
The administration of President George Bush remains deeply sceptical of Mr Hussein's true intentions despite the Iraqi dictator's agreement to go along with the new UN resolution.
When the Indonesian dictator Suharto fell in 1998, his successor offered the Timorese a vote on independence.
Mr Guzman had sent a written questionnaire to the former dictator last year, during his 17-month detention in Britain on the order of a Spanish judge, but it had been returned uncompleted.
The NRO, promulgated by the ousted dictator, Pervez Musharraf, in 2007, cleared Mr Zardari and his wife, the late Benazir Bhutto, of all corruption cases against them.
The Spanish judge pursuing the former dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, for torture, issued international warrants for the arrest of two former presidents of Argentina and 96 other members of its military dictatorship.
Mr Lagos is keen to push forward his promised economic and social reforms, held up partly by the long legal battle to decide whether the former dictator Augusto Pinochet could or could not be put on trial, and partly by the economic slowdown.
Unfortunately, instead of the condemnatory treatment he deserves, the Serbian dictator has recently won effusive praise from Lord Owen for Milosevic's eleventh-hour embrace of the Vance-Owen plan.
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Despite glaring contempt for world opinion, the Belarusian dictator is not completely independent of it.
The Iraqi dictator's overriding aim, apart from keeping himself in power, is to sell oil again.
Chaplin wrote and starred The Great Dictator in 1940, playing two characters in his first talking movie.
Perhaps, today, the former Iraqi dictator is still pondering the offer as he awaits trial in his Baghdad cell.
President Hugo Banzer, the former dictator democratically elected last year, may do better.
Mr Blair said that was because Mr Leigh was a Westerner and not an Iraqi who disagreed with the former dictator.
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Most Chileans believe the former dictator should be tried, and found guilty.
Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, who like Gadhafi was ousted in a 2011 Arab Spring uprising, had close ties to the Libyan dictator.
He stressed then that he was not suggesting there was anyone in the European Union with the same designs as the Nazi dictator.
The tests were ordered by Chile's courts to establish whether the former dictator is mentally fit to stand trial on charges for atrocities.
But Mr Guzman then ordered medical tests to determine whether the former dictator, who turned 85 last month, was fit to stand trial.
Everyone else is nowhere, including the leaders of Golkar, once the political machine of the ex-dictator Suharto and still the largest party in parliament.
Another possibility is a new generation of the Torrijos clan, Hugo Torrijos, Panama's former director of ports, backed by the old dictator's son Martin.
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