To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal mistake of believing his regime could take on the world.

So just how do dictators and authoritarians stay in power ... population's ability to mobilise against the government. In today's world this often means controlling the internet.

Their current dictator is the younger Castro brother ... and that gang quickly turned the island into something all too familiar in the world: a one-party dictatorship with a gulag.

But who stands behind the world's biggest despots? In good times and in bad, the ladies of the Dictators' Wives Club put up with a lot: corruption, political uprisings, and often other wives.

as these periods saw the rise and dominance of despots around the world. Various movies and TV series have attempted to grapple with the vexing questions posed by dictators, particularly since so ...

While there are a combination of factors that give rise to such a political situation, it is a widely held belief that dictators, in particular the very cruel ones, are different from regular ...

Since we have already counted down our favorite presidents of film last year, here's a list of film's least lovable losers, the dictators: 10) Kim Jong Il in "Team America: World Police" (2004) - ...

President Donald Trump seemingly diverged from his speech to the Economic Club in New York on Tuesday when he took a moment to say dictators are ... to the US economy. World leaders are quick ...

To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal mistake of believing his regime could take on the world. Like many dictators ...