petro-dictator

English

Etymology

Probably back-formed from petro-dictatorship.

Noun

petro-dictator (plural petro-dictators)

1. The dictator of a country whose economy is primarily dependent upon the export of petroleum.
   • 2005, Peter De Krassel, Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder:

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

   • 2008, Gal Luft, Breaking Oil's Monopoly in the Transportation Sector:

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

   • 2009, Ernest J. Wilson, China's Influence In Africa:

     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.