Mugabe escaped, but there are 10 long-lived dictators in power

After the fall of Robert Mugabes, 10 dictators who hold power for more than two decades still remain in the world. All are presidents of formal democratic regimes, but operate as autocrats. This sets apart the head of state such as Muda Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei for 50 years.

There are no such regimes as Cuba or North Korea, where power has been inherited from the family clan or from decades away. These power - torn dictators have many similarities, all over 70 years of age, and have come to power through major national crises, some even considered heroes because they had eliminated other dictatorships because they were important to independence and because they ended civil wars.

Their commonity lies, not in their personal abilities, but in the characteristics of the societies that crowned them.

7 belong to Central African countries and 3 are from the former Soviet republics. The income index for these countries ranges from 0,56-1, well below the global average. Corruption is high, the state is very weak, but, above all, are countries without democratic history. The world.al brings the list of 10 dictators:

1. Theodore Obiang Nduma (Guinea Ecuatorial): 38 years, 3 months and 22 days

The career military arrived at the presidency in 1979, after crushing a coup against his uncle, Francisco Macías Nduma, the first mandate selected after decolonising the country. Obiang was very popular because Macías Nduma had become a dictator who had ruled for 11 years through terror. After executing his uncle and suppressing several uprisings, he formed the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea and allowed presidential elections in 1989. These elections and those that came won by 90% of the vote, it is understood that in all of these, theft was a central element. The opposition are therefore being followed, with little opportunity to present a political alternative.

2. Paul Biya (Camerún): 35 years and 19 days

After studying public justice and international relations in Paris, he returned to Cameroon and began working in the government of the first colonial president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, who ruled from 1960-1982. He crossed the stairs until he arrived at the prime minister's post in 1975. When Ahidjo faced pressure to resign for health problems, Biya was the natural heir. However, the first mandated man was not so sick, in 1984 he organized a failed uprising to regain power. This gave Biya the opportunity to increase hope and suppress all potential dissidents and consolidate power. In 1992 through the largest crisis, he was forced to call elections by authorising other parties in participation. John Fru Frus' Social Democratic Front was declared winner by 38,6%, but the Supreme Court controlled by Biya decided who the real winner was with an inevitability 75% of the vote. From that moment on, he perfected the mechanisms of election manipulation and achieved triunfe. Human rights prejudices against him are very common.

3. Yoweri Kaguta Musveni (Uganda): 31 years, 9 months and 28 days

He was a professor of a politicised school, attended that young guerrillas took part, provided his help in the ousting of dictator Idi Amin (1971 ♫ 1979), the self-called “Master of the British Empire”. Then national resistance army leader Milton Obote against his successor. Government from 1986-1996 without calling elections until it began to accept some form of very limited opposition participation. Among his most vicious policies is the persecution of homosexuals even in some cases has stated that he will condemn them to death, even though he has quit.

4. Omar Hasan Ahmad al Bashir (Sudán): 28 years, 4 months and 24 days.

After a long military train in Egypt turned into a central figure in his country's Second Civil War in Sudan that began in 1983 and ended in 2005 with the break of South Sudan. The conflict ended with 2 million people dead and gave Al Bashir much power leading a coup in 1989 against Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi. In 1993 he brought a constitutional order that no one could express against him. The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal charged him with genocide and war crimes in Darfur and issued an arrest warrant that was never implemented in 2009.

5. Iris Déby (Chad): 26 years, 11 months and 23 days

He was formed military in France, where he graduated as a military pilot. He returned and participated in the civil war that ended with his victory by Hissène Habré, who ruled from 1982-1990. That year Déby commanded a rebel movement that crushed the dictatorship, which he had helped to lift. Unlike other dictators, the political participation of other parties in the first place, even though it made sure that his position in power was not violated.

6. Isaías Afewerki (Eritrea): 26 years, 6 months and 27 days

He studied in China and led the Eritrea Liberation Popular Front, which since 1991 reached Ethiopia's independence and was internationally recognised in 1993. Afewerki is the first and so far the only president of this country that has a poverty in terms of development and is one of the countries with the escapes of the larger people. Thousands of erythreas are thrown into the Mediterranean Sea in search of Europe to ward off hunger and violence. His government does not accept any opposition and has allowed free elections. He is accused of human rights violations by the worst in the world.

7. Nursultan Nazarbayev (zazakistán): 25 years, 11 months and 9 days.

It's one of his country's leaders before the country was autonomous. In the 1980 ' s, the council of ministers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan was tittolar. In 1990 he arrived at the presidency of the Republic, which was still part of the Soviet Union. He was the first and yet the only head of state since independence in 1991. His party, Nur Otan, wins in convincing numbers, but they are not even transparent competitors.

8. Emomali Rahmon (Tajikstán): 25 years and 5 díta

He had an important career with the Communist Party of Tajikistan, in the agrarian subsidiary, when the country was part of the Soviet Union. His story is similar to Nazarbayev and was part of the intimate district when independence was declared in 1991 and held several positions in the government of Rahmon Nabyev, the country's second president. It came to power in 1992, and has since attended a campaign against Islamic forces that have strong positions in the country. After many years, he has imposed a monopolitical order that guarantees indefinitely re-election.

9. Alexandr Lukashenko (Volrusia): 23 years, 4 months, 5 days

As others have started a career in the Soviet Union. He was chairman of the Communist Party of Belarus for 10 years and after independence was the title of the Anticorruption Committee. In 1993, Stanislav Shuskévich, the country's first leader after the Soviet phase, urged the decline. Lukashenko won the elections in 1994 and never lost.

10. Denis Sassu-Nguesso (República of Congo): 20 years and 1 month

He was a soldier who took up his formations in Algeria and France and returned to his country with political ambitions. In 1970 his Congoese Labour Party carried out an armed coup and founded a socialist state, the Congo People's Republic, led by Marien Ngoabi. It was killed in 1977, and after a brief rule by Yemby-Opango, who collapsed, Sassu-Nguesso arrives at the presidency. In 1992, he experienced the decline of socialism and was forced to leave power. Pascal Lissuba was the country's first leader, Sassou-Nguesso, has been forced to flee into exile. After five years he returned to participate in the elections and caused a civil war that ended with his victory. He arrived at the presidency on November 25th, 1997, with the promise of a democracy that turned into a dictator. / Source: El Nuevo Siglo '% Prepare: The world..