Meet the Friendly Dictators
Featuring 36 of America's Most Embarrassing Allies
Contact me: rod@funkiness.com
These are not my images or texts, but I have no intention of even trying to make any money off of them. I received the "Friendly Dictator Trading Cards" as a gift from a friend in Santa Cruz, CA in the early 90's. I do not know if these cards are still commercially available. While some of the information is getting a bit out of date, the artwork and research that went into these cards is too good not to share.
The following people are the creators of the cards. Artist: Bill Sienkiewicw; Writers: Dennis Bernstein and Laura Sydell: Editor: Catherine Yronwode; Eclipse Enterprises, P.O. Box 1099, Forestville, CA 95436
| Dictator | Country | Dictator | Country |
| Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez | El Salvador | Fulgencia Batista | Cuba |
| Rafael Leonidas Trujillo | Dominican Republic | Humberto Branco | Brazil |
| Hugo Banzer | Bolivia | Anastasio Somoza, Sr. and Jr. | Nicaragua |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | Argentina | Efrain Rios Mont | Guatemala |
| Roberto Suazo Cordova | Honduras | Francois and Jean Claude Duvalier | Haiti |
| Alfredo Stroessner | Paraguay | Augusto Pinochet | Chile |
| Manuel Noriega | Panama | Vinincio Cerezo | Guatemala |
| Alfredo Cristiani | El Salvador | Chiang Kai-Shek | Taiwan |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | South Vietnam | Park Chung Hee | South Korea |
| Ferdinand Marcos | Philippines | Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq | Pakistan |
| Sir Hassanal Bolkiah | Brunei | Sitiveni Rabuka | Fiji |
| Suharto | Indonesia | Halie Selassie | Ethiopia |
| Ian Smith | Rhodesia | P.W. Botha | South Africa |
| Samuel Doe | Liberia | Mobutu Sese Seko | Zaire |
| Mohammad Reza Pahlevi | Iran | Hussan II | Morocco |
| Adolf Hitler | Germany | Francisco Franco | Spain |
| Antonio de Oliveira Salazar | Portugal | George Papadopoulos | Greece |
| Turgat Ozal | Turkey |