20 Executive Facts About World’s Presidents

11Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende, Latin America's "first-ever Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy"; gave his final speech while his house was being bombed and raided by troops loyal to Augusto Pinochet's US-backed coup. Allende committed suicide shortly after giving the speech.


12Charles D.B. King

Charles D.B. King

Former president of Liberia Charles D.B. King holds the Guinness World record for the most fraudulent election ever, having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country of 15,000 voters.


13Park Chung Hee

Park Chung Hee

President Park Chung Hee was responsible in large part for South Korea’s “economic miracle.” The programs he initiated gave his country one of the fastest-growing economies in the world during his 18-year rule.


14Pedro Lascuráin Paredes

Pedro Lascuráin Paredes

Pedro Lascuráin Paredes was a Mexican politician who became president for less than one hour on February 19, 1913. This was due to a military coup by a General. The general had Lascuráin assume the presidency, then appoint him interior secretary, before resigning to make him president.


15Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin

In 1979, using Coca-Cola, the Soviets tried to poison the President of Afghanistan (Hafizullah Amin) but it didn't work as the carbonation diluted the poison.


16Mikhail Saakashvili

Mikhail Saakashvili

In 2005, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili fired all of the traffic police in his country, cutting 25,000 to 30,000 police from the payroll to fight corruption. He also increased the minimum weekly salary from $30-$40 to around $400 for the new officers.


17Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad

President of Syria Bashar al-Assad graduated from medical school, began working as an army doctor on the outskirts of Damascus, and had few political aspirations in his early life.


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18Rodrigo Duterte

Rodrigo Duterte

Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines (as of 2020), has been credited with transforming 'the murder capital of the nation' to 'the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia', primarily through illegal death squads targeting criminals.


19Alberto Fujimori

Alberto Fujimori

In 1992, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori initiated a "self-coup". Despite already being the democratic ruler of the country, he overthrew the Congress and Judiciary with military force and assumed full autocratic power.


20Adolfo López Mateos

Adolfo López Mateos

Former of President of Mexico Adolfo López Mateos used to fuel one of his cars with Tequila. Chrysler had made a car with a turbine engine that could run on everything from perfume to peanut oil.

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