How many murderous dictators are in power right now?
The guy in North Korea is one. Maybe the guy in Pakistan.
There are a lot of non-elected rulers in the middle east but not all of them are murderous. I read somewhere that only Qatar and Israel right now have real democracy in the middle east.
There are a few dictators left in Central and South America but I can’t remember which countries are democratic now and which are not.
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Actually, looking at jklann’s thread, I have a critique: a country can be “unfree” and NOT ruled by a “dictator”. It may be at a bad point in social evolution, and the guy in charge just took over from years of dictatorship/colonial rule/anarchy; or the country is currently intervened by an occupier or beset by terrorist cells; or it may be in a state of virtual anarchy and the President only rules the space within a 10 minute drive of the Palace.
Well, in the last bag of spuds I bought, three of them were pretty long and thin.
Didn’t anyone else want to answer the title?
“How many dictators…”
“…does it take to change a light bulb?”
No argument here. In fact, I did exclude some unfree countries such as monarchies, “party dictatorships” (China) and countries in a state of anarchy (Somalia). There will always be some questionable calls around the margins. The important point, I think, is that there are still a fair number of dictators in the world, and not all of them get a lot of publicity like Moammar, Saddam, and Fidel (I love calling these guys by their first names.)