Meaning of petro-dictator | Babel Free

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The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.

Examples

“[…] ignore the warnings while America's career politicians coddled and sun-bathed with their corrupt corporate campaign donors and the petro-dictators and monarchs[…]”

“By any reasonable standard it is a far better deal to send money to America's farmers than to various petro-dictators.”

“The U.S., the U.K. and others could point usefully to their own sometimes ruinous experiences with various African petro-dictators and diamond despots, in that not-so-distant past before we discovered our new-found attention to African democracy.”

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