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The country’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, is set to be sworn in for a third term as president on Friday.—
Julie Turkewitz,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025 -
Production in the world’s second-largest garment manufacturer was repeatedly stalled by the months-long violence, before protesters forced long-time autocrat Sheikh Hasina to flee in August.—
Chloe Berger,
Fortune Asia,
9 Jan. 2025
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Be realistic, however: Talk such as Trump’s could be very useful to those expansionist, rapacious tyrants.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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Sharon Stone plays a gunfighter who ends up in a town called Redemption, ruled with iron fist by a tyrant played by Gene Hackman.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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His fervor against communism, which was gaining a foothold in nearby Cuba, made the ruthless dictator and his son U.S. allies.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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In fact, past experience as a brutal dictator seems to be an important qualification, as both Khan Noonien Singh and Philippa Georgiou have made it past Section 31's vetting procedures.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Growing up watching those movies and reading comics and science fiction, the idea of robot overlords enslaving humanity was always close at hand.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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Léa Seydoux, The Beast In Bertrand Bonello’s softly devastating sci-fi romance, Léa Seydoux plays a futuristic lab employee in a world where AI overlords urge humans to purge their DNA of all imperfections by revisiting their past lives and eliminating strong emotions.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2024
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That's the same South Africa that once hosted a Sudanese dictator after the ICC issued warrants for his arrest on crimes against humanity and genocide and then, last year, also hosted a Sudanese warlord accused of crimes against humanity.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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The country has become a magnet for warlords, arms dealers, human traffickers, poachers, drug syndicates and generals wanted by international courts.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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The horror show of our impending political nightmare is casting a shadow over the New Year like another decrepit despot of suffering, the creeping bloodsucker of Nosferatu.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2025
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This dynamic is especially relevant for despots who do not intend to exit the scene peacefully when their tenure is up.—
Michael Poznansky,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Jan. 2025
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Most people in the military and police know that the socialist strongman lost the election, and would side with the people if the conditions were created for a showdown, an opposition spokesperson told the Miami Herald.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2025
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Deprivation provides fertile ground for the appeal of a strongman.—
Katherine Tai,
Foreign Affairs,
9 Jan. 2025
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Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orange County Register,
17 Oct. 2020
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Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.—
Layla Taimienova,
Foreign Affairs,
10 May 2017
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“Autarch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/autarch. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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